Quotes About Innovation

In leadership, energy is one of the essential ingredients needed for bringing any sense of new to the table. It's energy that produces excitement in others. You

The older speak life and lessons to the younger, and the younger bring new energy and enthusiasm, pioneering a new way. Talk

If you stop dreaming, you get complacent, and complacency never changes the world. On

Economic institutions shape economic incentives: the incentives to become educated, to save and invest, to innovate and adopt new technologies, and so on. It is the political process that determines what economic institutions people live under, and it is the political institutions that determine how this process works.

Economic growth and technological change are accompanied by what the great economist Joseph Schumpeter called creative destruction. They replace the old with the new. New sectors attract resources away from old ones. New firms take business away from established ones. New technologies make existing skills and machines obsolete.

A businessman who expects his output to be stolen, expropriated, or entirely taxed away will have little incentive to work, let alone any incentive to undertake investments and innovations.

A remarkable thing about new technologies in the Roman period is that their creation and spread seem to have been driven by the state. This is good news, until the government decides that it is not interested in technological development—and all-too-common occurrence due to the fear of creative destruction.

people need to rethink the concept of work.

Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.

Democracy can no longer ignore the future.

New competences, new channels, new geographies versus doubling down or tripling down on the same businesses.

The big difference between a friend and an inventor is that an inventor works.

The CEO transition comes at a good time for the company. We have a strong leadership team and are very excited about the future, including the strong pipeline of innovation we will deliver to our customers and merchant partners in the coming months.

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.

We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers.

This isn't just a book about organizational change—it's also about

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.

Only one thing can help us now," said George. "What?" asked Harold. "Rubber doggy doo-doo," said George.

With his marine clocks, John Harrison tested the waters of space-time. He succeeded, against all odds, in using the fourth—temporal—dimension to link points on the three-dimensional globe. He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.

In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of "discovering the longitude" became a synonym for attempting the impossible.

The British Parliament, in its famed Longitude Act of 1714, set the highest bounty of all, naming a prize equal to a king's ransom (several million dollars in today's currency) for a "Practicable and Useful" means of determining longitude.

John "Longitude" Harrison was born March 24, 1693, in the county of Yorkshire, the eldest of five children.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.