Innovation quotes
938 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two - and only these two — basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are 'costs'."
"Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat"
"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."
"Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority."
"Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make."
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"What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming."
"The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites."
"In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession."
"He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist."
"I want to be remembered as someone who put India on the scientific map of the world in terms of large innovation. I want to be remembered for making a difference to global healthcare. And I want to be remembered as someone who did make a difference to social economic development in India."
"A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road."
"The transformation of part of the northern part of this continent into "America" inaugurated a nearly boundless epoch of opportunity and innovation, and thus deserves to be celebrated with great vim and gusto, with or without the participation of those who wish they had never been born."
"Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone."
"Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty."
"No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes."
"We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future."
"Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form."
"The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems."
"Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness."
"The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child."
"Innovation is key. Only those who have the agility to change with the market and innovate quickly will survive."
"You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best."
"Marketing and innovation make money. Everything else is a cost."
"Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation."
"Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into innovation. That connection to the consumer is absolutely critical in driving innovation. It’s critical that design isn’t subjugated to the back room as a short order cook for marketing or for merchandising or sales. It has to be up front."
