Innovation Quotes

"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

"Every innovation occasions more harm and and derangement of order by its novelty, than benefit by its abstract utility."
-Legal Maxim

"I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper."
-Damon Runyon

"Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public."
-Ludwig Von Mises

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
-Steve Jobs

"Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation."
-Rosabeth Moss Kanter

"We haven't the capacity to compete with those figures, so we have to build a future based on cooperation, on innovation and on doing things better."
-Alun Michael

"These companies feel that others are not putting enough effort into research and innovation, and they are doing something about it."
-Michael Goulde

"Greenville is such a hotbed of creativity and innovation -- I know there are ideas out there that need to be submitted."
-Kristen Badger

"The (X Prize) positioned St. Louis as being right in the center of innovation and entrepreneurial activity."
-Richard Fleming

"We would be willing to talk to other fund companies that would want to use the innovation."
-Gus Sauter

"It's desperation as well as innovation. And it's never going to stop."
-Stuart Fischoff

"I've gone through quite a few wastebaskets, ... We celebrate innovation here."
-Ralph Stayer

"Spain is best described as vibrant. It is one of the leading centers of innovation not only in Europe but in the world."
-Terence Riley

"XAML is the key innovation. It's what the tools understand natively."
-Forest Key

"Our development focus on recognition accuracy stems from a combination of industry and customer demand and a continuing commitment to innovation and precision in the area of speech recognition."
-Jim Blake

"Our advisors can go into a firm for up to 10 days and help develop innovation within the firm."
-Bob Reid

"You've got to figure out what you do best as a community. We sometimes get enthralled with the idea of high-tech. But it's all about innovation. And tourism can be very innovative. Health care can be very innovative."
-Doug Henton

"... Innovation is an integral part of our vision for McDonald's in the 21 st century."
-Jack Greenberg

"We want to boost innovation in Europe, but not just by one company."
-Neelie Kroes

"Gillette Fusion extends our rich history of innovation. It's a breakthrough platform that will continue to drive our category leadership."
-James Kilts

"This case is of vital importance to innovation. Microsoft has a chilling effect."
-Per Hellstrom

"Laws are two-by-fours, ... They are very broad. . . . They retard innovation."
-Christine Varney

"Facilitating innovation growth in China through partnership is an important part of Nokia's mission in China."
-David Ho

"RSS is probably the biggest area of innovation in IE 7. We've done work both on the end user to expose the average user to RSS in a really great way and we've done a lot of work on the platform to enable RSS for any application to take advantage of."
-Gary Schare

"HP has a great environment for seeding ideas. HP is a wonderfully collaborative environment that is conducive to innovation and provides tools for innovation and incentive for innovation."
-Shell Simpson

"They see, they demand detail, design innovation. We have been able to provide that to them, and, as a result, they have rewarded us with their pocketbooks."
-Isaac Larian

"Entrepreneurship drives innovation. Innovation drives productivity. Productivity drives higher wages and higher standards of living."
-Sandy K. Baruah