Quotes About Innovation

If every one agreed, we should never get on.

The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed.

necessity being the mother of invention

Publishers now act as if writing is the same as typing.

Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence in anything you do.

Luckily for Rockefeller, the lightbulb didn't instantly drive out kerosene: It took time for Edison to cover the country with power stations, and by 1885 only 250,000 lightbulbs shone across America.

when prohibited from talking about money directly to Rockefeller, Harper circumvented the ban by praying aloud for money in his presence.

In these early years, one also sees Rockefeller using contributions to stimulate collaboration from others as he inched toward the concept of matching grants.

What Rockefeller had accomplished in oil a generation earlier was now being imitated in steel, copper, rubber, tobacco, leather, and other products

Despite his lack of legal training, Henry M. Flagler drew up the act of incorporation.

Driven by such changes in the economy

What he brought to the concept was unprecedented scale and scope.

Rockefeller's supreme insight was that he could solve the oil industry's problems by solving the railroads' problems at the same time, creating a double cartel in oil and rails.

There is no limit to the development of medical work.

He became so skillful that he built roads without an engineer.

whereas Rockefeller brought a rational spirit to the business, and this counted among his greatest contributions.

Nobody ever accused Gates of thinking small.

when it came to the parallel economic upheavals of the period—the industrial revolution, the expansion of global trade, the growth of banks and stock exchanges—Hamilton was an American prophet without peer. No other founding father straddled both of these revolutions—only Franklin even came close—and therein lay Hamilton's novelty and greatness.

are desperate for people of every background with the ability to formulate a compelling vision of the future and to inspire others to help make that vision a

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.