Innovation Quotes - Page 6

No matter how well you perform, there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.

Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they are relics of a bygone era of imperial colonial rule, elite privilege, and state-sanctioned plunder.

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped!

Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before.

Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things.

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.

You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.

If you read Wall Street’s reports, they don’t talk of soya bean as originating in China. They don’t talk of soya bean as soya bean. They talk of Monsanto soya. Monsanto soya is protected by a patent. It has a patent number. It is therefore treated as a creation of Monsanto, a product of Monsanto’s intelligence and innovation.

Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower.

Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction.

I dream of things that are not and ask why not.

Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.

Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

By being discontented, the spirit searches for ways to improve its condition and for a better channel for expressing itself. This sense of discontent is the engine that drives all creativity and innovation... Our blue moments are a necessary part of our human evolution.

How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.

Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world.

You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.

Fight piracy; don't squash innovation.