Innovation Quotes - Page 16

Innovation comes only from readily and seamlessly sharing information rather than hoarding it.

Recession always encourages entrepreneurialism and innovation. It does that every time because when people have no options they look at other things.

It's not that I'm deliberately trying to shock people all the time. I'm just doing things that are obvious to me. It's because the public doesn't understand my way of thinking that they get surprised.

Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.

It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

Part of the challenge of innovation is coming up with the problem to solve, not just its solution.

Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

The limits to innovation have nothing to do with creativity, and nothing to do with technology. They have everything to do with management capability.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.

Innovation means replacing the best practices of today with those of tomorrow.

It is India's responsibility to display its strength to the World through knowledge and innovations.

Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom-up.

Singapore and China, which don't want to encourage democratic citizenship, are expanding their humanities curricula. These reforms are all about developing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

What is needed is both a New Deal in terms of mission-oriented investments but also a new deal in terms of a modern social compact - one that allows the state to socialize not only risks but also rewards. Maybe then innovation-led growth will also become growth that includes all of us.

We should be investing where the public returns are greatest - that is in innovation.

If we want growth today to be more innovation-driven, more inclusive and more sustainable, then we need a more active state, not a less active one. Yet we still hear the dogma that we should just fix market failure by focusing on science and infrastructure, and to "level the playing field."

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.