Innovation Quotes

We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our ne...

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn,...

I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an ar...

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal...

Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.

The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advan...

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am...

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriv...

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, ...

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being W...

You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamit...

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more mel...

In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cen...

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can ...

Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.

Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refus...

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at ...

We kind of missed the boat on that," he recalled. " So we needed to catch up real fast." The mark of...

One of Job's business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. " If you don't canniba...

Steve and I spent a lot of time on the packaging," said Ive. " I love the process of unpacking somet...

Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that inte...

Unlike other product developers, Jobs did not believe the customer was always right; if they wanted ...

When he was turning thirty, Jobs had used a metaphor about record albums. He was musing about why fo...

Customers don't know what they want until we've shown them.

So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it -- perhaps as m...

Lying there in the darkness, he knew he was an outcast. " 'Cos I had some sense.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innov...

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are no...

If you are committed to your highest potential, existence will support you with new energies.

You can't understand depth of science, unless you challenge the published scientific data.

Collaboration has no hierarchy. The Sun collaborates with soil to bring flowers on the earth.

Innovation needs preparation, collaboration and the light of the soul. Every challenge provides that...

Be a Columbus smell the fragrance of the new lands and discover them.

In the path of compassion our patience, resilience and endurance are often challenged. Sometimes we ...

Compassion does not need any special preparation, place or time. You can start it anywhere and anyti...

Compassion makes you strong, caring and creative. It creates a different attitude, a level of maturi...

Compassion needs new approach and new outlook with the way you see the world.

Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.

Come out of the don'ts and impossibles. Manifest your dream. Bloom your worth.

The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, ...

The charlatan is always the pioneer... The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.

Much depends on asking the right question at the right time.

Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go...

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an ove...

Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted ...

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration age...

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

When shame becomes a management style, engagement dies. When failure is not an option we can forget ...

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics

Innovation was a curious thing. It never failed to amaze him. And yet this place confirmed what they...

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision,...

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way...

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves ...

What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth...

A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucra...

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especia...

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

I’m a firm a believer in the power of free enterprise to move the world forward. All that Soviet res...

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest – sometimes with ex...

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between...

The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.

Originality must compound with inheritance.

All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.

What Emily Dickinson does not rename or redefine, she revises beyond easy recognition.

Canonical writing is born of an originality fused with tradition. – From the book jacket

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is t...

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.

Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it...

In a society caught up in the race for the better, limits on change are experienced as a threat. The...

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the...

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, t...

Trust the young people; trust this generation's innovation. They're making things, changing innovati...

The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value...

Our philosophy is that we want to be an ecosystem. Our philosophy is to empower others to sell, empo...

The Brinktown jail is one of the most ingenious ever propounded by civic authorities. It must be rem...

It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation i...

The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is s...

The only hope for social networking sites from a business point of view is for a magic formula to ap...

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defi...

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be...

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

New ideas for innovation grow out of the minds of each new generation. Having an institution of high...

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.