Innovation Quotes

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new.

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.

Innovation is creativity with a job to do.

Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad.

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.

Never lose this innovation spirit.

All foreign companies registered in China are Chinese enterprises. Their innovation, production and business operations in China enjoy the same treatment as Chinese enterprises.

If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

Boston is known for its innovation.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

Dominant companies have a special responsibility to ensure that the way they do business doesn't prevent competition... and does not harm consumers and innovation.

The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.

We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.

Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.

The innovation is going to come, and that is good for everybody.

Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.

People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.