Innovation Quotes

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill

Art, Sheep, Tradition

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs

Leader, Between, Follower

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
Steve Jobs

Thinking, Night, Problem

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R amp&; D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Steve Jobs

Money, Nothing, Times

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.
Steve Jobs

Money, Pretty, Making

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
Barack Obama

Education, Long, May

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.
Steve Jobs

Lost, Dark, Dead

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.
Bill Gates

Life, Play, Big

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.
Alexis de Tocqueville

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.
Bill Gates

Learn, Research, Facts

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
Katharine Hepburn

Mind, Next, Stretch

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.
Bill Gates

Powerful, Bad, Democracy

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
Bill Gates

Greed, Fairness, Microsoft

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.
Bill Gates

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Peter Drucker

Act, Wealth, Create

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke

Forward, Selfish, Spirit

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 to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
J. K. Rowling

Power, Human, Whose

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
William Pollard

Success, Learning, Tomorrow

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
Denis Waitley

Dreams, Reason, Achieve

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.
Milan Kundera

Business, Two, Marketing

I'm not against screens, or new songs, or innovation. I just don't like the gimmicks. I want to know when worship is over that that leader's sole purpose was to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.
Charles R. Swindoll

Jesus, Leader, Against

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
Mason Cooley

Art, Imitation, Begins

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana

Fashion, Reason, Imitation

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.
Max Planck

Important, Winning, Happen

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
Bill Rancic

Courage, Business, Successful

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

Work, Technology, Despite

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
Bill Nye

Working, Keep, Space

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
Michael Porter

Economic, Prosperity, Issue

Any good music must be an innovation.
Les Baxter

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
George Lucas

Reality, Whatever, Happened

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