Innovation Quotes
Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.
Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.
You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.
Chance favors the connected mind.
Whether you're a farmer, builder or engineer, the opportunities are equal: Just add a little innovation.
In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.
Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.
Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.
Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.
There is no one, right way to design or develop anything. To a large degree, it needs to reflect the culture - especially the innovation culture - of a company.
The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.
Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.
In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.
Establish a place of work where engineers can feel the joy of technological innovation, be aware of their mission to society and work to their heart's content.
We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.
What is often lacking is not creativity in the idea-creating sense but innovation in the action-producing sense, i.e. putting ideas to work.
We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.
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.
Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.
Managing innovation better may be the only way out of the abyss called commodity hell.
Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation.
Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.
It's important to realize that innovation and growth in itself are not sufficient to moderate inequality of wealth.
A brand strategy can enable, sometimes crucially, the potential of an innovation to be realised. There are times when you literally need to brand it or lose it.
Kaizen is like a hotbed that nurtures small and ongoing changes, while innovation is like magma that appears in abrupt eruptions from time to time
Colleagues should take care of each other, have fun, celebrate success, learn by failure, look for reasons to praise not to criticize, communicate freely and respect each other.
I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.
