Quotes About Innovation

It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial.

It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology.

And that is, if you want innovation, tell me where you want to go, but don't tell me how I must get there.

One of the sanitarium's earliest guests was a marketing whiz named C. W. Post, who took the baths, ate the meals, and, inspired by what he experienced there, eventually went into business for himself.

If she [Mrs. Homemaker] didn't know how much she needed convenience, it was up to inventors like Clausi to show her the way.

the inventors and company executives don't generally partake in their own creations. Thus the heavy reliance on focus groups with the targeted consumer.

You know," said Jehangir, breaking the silence, "it's only Muslims who use the term 'innovation' to mean something bad.

If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones.

In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

It's the drunkenness of all the new things that can be.

Chicago rising out of the Midwest like huge metallic cornstalks...

If we could learn to make things and do things the way nature does, we could achieve factor 10, factor 100, maybe even factor 1,000 savings in resource and energy use.

As my boys got into their later teens, I found that upon occasion they did have fresh ideas that were better than my "old fashioned" way of doing things.

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

A whole genre of rock, called math rock, is based on using complex time signatures, such as 7/8, 11/8, 13/8, and so on, in order to break away from the 4/4 time that's the standard in rock.

The first orchestral leader to use a baton was German conductor Louis Spohr, in 1820. Prior to the use of a baton, conductors often tapped a staff on the floor to demonstrate the beat — a practice that led to the death of 17th century French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, who stabbed himself in the foot with his staff and subsequently died of gangrene.

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.

It was the Frisians who reinvented useful money, and taught their ideas to the Franks under Charlemagne.