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Quotes About Innovation

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.
~ Marvin Bower
My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
~ Hank Stram
Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.
~ Shigeru Miyamoto
My philosophy was if they weren't calling you names, you weren't doing anything.
~ Earl Lloyd
Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
~ Richard Rorty
Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
~ Issey Miyake
When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.
~ Roger Martin
Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.
~ Robert Reich
I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
~ Larry Wall
My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.
~ Richard Branson
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features
~ Joseph Joubert
You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Analysis kills spontaneity.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.
~ Ayn Rand
My philosophy is that everything starts with a great product.
~ Steve Jobs
The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.
~ Eric Hoffer
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.
~ Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.
~ Norman Cousins
All great ideas are dangerous.
~ Oscar Wilde
Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.
~ Mario Bunge
Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.
~ Donald A. Norman
Steve Jobs is someone I've studied inside and out, and I've applied so many of his techniques and philosophies to my businesses. It's a remote mentorship because I've never met him.
~ Ryan Blair
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
~ Henry George