Quotes About Innovation

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

When everyone thinks alike, no one is doing very much thinking.

It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

Or supposing humans had developed different abilities than those they have now and had learned magic rather than, say, calculus . .

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

One fragment from Vis consists of a ski tip, under which there is a wedge-like protuberance. It is carved in the shape of an elk's head facing towards the rear.3 It was evidently designed as a brake to prevent slipping backwards – a forerunner of modern waxless cross-country skis.

Until the advent of fast railway trains, in the late nineteenth century, a skier was the fastest human being on earth.

Nesseby broke new ground in other ways as well. The fixture consisted of a ski-jump, followed by a separate sprint-like cross-country race. This was the first known Nordic combination in the modern sense.

Unlike Jefferson, Hamilton never saw the creation of America as a magical leap across a chasm to an entirely new landscape, and he always thought the New World had much to learn from the Old.

He downplayed the significance of technical knowledge in business. "I never felt the need of scientific knowledge, have never felt it. A young man who wants to succeed in business does not require chemistry or physics. He can always hire scientists.

Daring in design, cautious in execution—it was a formula he made his own throughout his career.

If Washington was the father of the country and Madison the father of the Constitution, then Alexander Hamilton was surely the father of the American government.

I trust . . . that the good sense of our countrymen will guard the public weal against this and every other innovation and that, altho[ugh] we may be a little wrong now and then, we shall return to the right path with more avidity." It was an accurate forecast of American history, both its tragic lapses and its miraculous redemptions.

Rockefeller always sees a little further than the rest of us—and then he sees around the corner.

Rockefeller was fortunate to have applied his money at the precise moment that medical research matured as a discipline and offered unbounded opportunities.

As with industrial methods, Rockefeller broke down cycling into its component parts then perfected each movement.

Rockefeller eventually realized that medical research ideally suited his needs.

Before too long, he realized that refining was the critical point where he could exert maximum leverage over the industry.

Never deterred by restrictive laws, Flagler switched his legal residence to Florida and applied his influence with state legislators.

The sum total of these developments resulted in nothing less than a revolution in medical education.

If there had been as prompt and energetic action on the part of the Russian oil industry as was taken by the Standard Oil Company, the Russians would have dominated many of the world's markets