Quotes About Innovation

Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping, but he has probably had more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

Net - the biggest word in the language of business.

In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom, where the old ways are taught, but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.

Had there been a computer a hundred years ago, it would probably have predicted that by now there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles it would be impossible to clear up all the manure.

If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.

Everything changes but change itself.

When you're through changing, you're through.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

A camel is a horse designed by a committee.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery-courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.

You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hardworking. ... Do not fear to pioneer, to venture down new paths of endeavor.

The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.