innovation quotes

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&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.”

“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”

— Winston Churchill

“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.”

— Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.”

— Edward Hopper

“In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.”

— Edward Hopper

“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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.”

“Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.”

“Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.”

“As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.”

— Francis Bacon

“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

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

— Stephen Covey

“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”