Quotes About Innovation

All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.

Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority.

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

Strong ideas, loosely held. That's the path to success.

We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience.

No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.

Ignore the received wisdom of any industry you're entering. Never be trapped by dogma. Never let other people's opinions drown out your own inner voice.

In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.

A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!

Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete.

There is a vast region of enormous potential located somewhere between your ears.

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.

The mind of the people is like mud, from which arises strange and beautiful things.

There can be no forced inspiration.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.

With your goal you make the one.

Your creativity comes from the universal source of all creation, the source of all intelligence and wisdom.

Creating new paths requires moving old obstacles.

My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It's been very profitable and entertaining for me

Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?