Quotes About Innovation

relying on slack resources or ignoring constraints not only stifles creative thinking, but also breeds Overthinking.

Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius.

But tapping into the creative thinking of inventors and others on the outside would require massive operational changes. We needed to move the company's attitude from resistance to innovations "not invented here" to enthusiasm for those "proudly found elsewhere.

History is a more or less bunk, the only history that is worth a damn is what we make today.

There is a sense of empowerment and confidence in the act of creation that cannot be achieved by copying.

A CFO needs to go beyond being "the finance operations expert" to become a corporate strategist who can enhance the firm's valuation and brand, and win over stakeholders' trust and goodwill.

Technology-based innovation is imperative for success in a competitive business environment.

The keys to not just survival but success, Busch understood, lay in diversification, distribution, and marketing.

The father of the tower was Eiffel—but the idea and the math were me.

Every progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.

Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.

At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

One reason why the painter takes up his brush is that in one sense the art of painting still remains to be created...Painting is always something to be created.

I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be.

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.

In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost.

Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles.

Breakthroughs occur not when someone works within the established paradigm but when assumptions are abandoned, rules are ignored, and creativity runs amok

job losses generate should be mostly directed at technological change, not immigration

The average lifetime of a company on the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index has declined from sixty years to a mere ten years

Einstein would be one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time even if he had not written a single line on relativity.

Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

Productive Workers + Innovative Products = Industry Leadership, no?)