Innovation Quotes

Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.
Watts Humprey

Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. It is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

Innovation by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires 'courageous patience'.
Warren Bennis

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

The world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be world leaders in everything else.
Harold R. McAlindon

If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.

To innovate is not to reform.

As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
Theodor Reik

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.
Ted Levitt

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.
Theodore Levitt

I believe in being an innovator.

The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.
W. Arthur Porter

Pure innovation is more gross than error.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents; it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that it opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning.
Max Planck







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