Innovation Quotes

Innovation distinguishes a leader from a follower. (Steve Jobs)
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
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. View quote
Steve Ballmer
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared. View quote
J. K. Rowling
Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy. View quote
Don Tapscott
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. View quote
George Santayana
Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world. View quote
George Steiner
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. View quote
Winston Churchill
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. View quote
Peter Drucker
Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation. View quote
Peter Drucker
When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared. (Cameron Sinclair)
The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade. View quote
Steve Jobs
I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company. View quote
Indra Nooyi
The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In business the 80/20 principle is behind any innovation, any extra value. It is an entrepreneurial principle, a formula for value creation utilized not only by entrepreneurs, but by most managers and organizations. View quote
Richard Koch
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity. View quote
Michael E. Porter
If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect. View quote
Steven Johnson
Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic. View quote
Ferran Adria
Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business. (Christopher Lasch)
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization. View quote
Denis Waitley
I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
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. View quote
Barbara Jordan
What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years? View quote
Brian Ferneyhough