Top 318 Innovations Quotes & Sayings

What I'm doing is obeying the law of diffusion of innovations.

The economy in the next 20 to 25 years is going to change more than they did in the last 20, 25 years. And that's because exponential trends are affecting a bigger and bigger share of the economy. So we have some huge disruptions in store, and I can't predict exactly what the innovations are going to be. If I did, I would have already invented them. But I think they'll be comparable to the innovations we saw in the past 20, 25 years if not greater.

It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.

Innovations until now conceived by no one at all

My philosophy, one of the biggest enemies of future success is past success, because you become complacent, you become risk averse, and that's one of the things we try to drive here, and this is fundamental to this philosophy, and that's in this component change, and also in value creation. That we need to drive creative destruction, not just incremental innovations, but innovations that will change the whole nature of the business.

It's very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.

Effective innovations start small. They are not grandiose. They try to do one specific thing.

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

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

I am, as far as my politics reaches, 'King and Country' - no 'Innovations in Religion and Government' say I.

In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession.

If you look at the history of innovation, the innovations coming through the defence department have been some of the most important innovations ever. Little things like drones, sensors, and the Internet of Things are defence-type initiatives, but the big one is the Internet itself.

Innovations are changes which cannot be decomposed into infinitessimal steps.

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.

Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

There seems to be no limit to the exciting possibilities that come from combining technical innovations, the Internet, and social media.

It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.

Efficiency innovations are a natural part of the economic cycle, but these are the innovations that streamline process and actually reduce the number of available jobs.

Sustaining innovations are the key to consistent performance, whereas disruptive innovations are the key to dramatic changes in power.

Companies, in fact, are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set up separate teams or groups to commercialize disruptive innovations. When disruptive innovations have to fight with other innovations for resources, they tend to lose out.

The world needs more social innovations.

Those who have contributed great positive innovations to our society, from the pioneers of genetic understanding to the pioneers of the Information Age, have received a pittance compared with those responsible for the financial innovations that brought our global economy to the brink of ruin.

Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. So companies are using capital to create more capital, and consequently, the world is awash in capital, but the innovations we need to advance aren't there.

Digital innovations have the potential to transform the recruitment industry, and the Adecco Group is taking the lead.

Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats, resisting mules are being crushed under the weight of these innovations. You are nothing but ants standing in front of the giants; nothing but chicks trying to challenge roaring volcanoes!

It's during wartime that innovations happen.

When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.

If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries.

Innovations, which are the births of time.

Judaism, Christianity & Islam are innovations on fragments from the periphery of the African cultural and spiritual system.

Android was intended to be very customizable. And we welcome innovations.

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time.

Most innovations fail. And companies that don’t innovate die.

Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.

Where conservative Catholics have the power to resist what seem like false ideas or disastrous innovations they must do so.

Technology in renewable energy has already led to many innovations in business models, products, and solutions.

The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption. Companies in fact are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set up separate teams or groups to commercialize disruptive innovations. When disruptive innovations have to fight with other innovations for resources, they tend to lose out.

Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.

We love serious technology innovations, and there is a strong bias towards large technology innovations that are sort of disruptive to the current market.

All great innovations are built on rejections.

It is India's responsibility to display its strength to the World through knowledge and innovations.

Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars.

The best innovations - both socially and economically - come from the pursuit of ideals that are noble and timeless: joy, wisdom, beauty, truth, equality, community, sustainability and, most of all, love. These are the things we live for, and the innovations that really make a difference are the ones that are life-enhancing. And that’s why the heart of innovation is a desire to re-enchant the world.

Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.

Innovations never happen as planned.

Successful innovations become conventions.

Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.

There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.

Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations.

When innovations become habits, prescriptions, they must be imagined all over again, made new.

If a company truly wants to resolve the innovator's dilemma, it does need to be able to create wave after wave of disruptive innovation. And those disruptive innovations will typically grow to the point where they do cause some pain for leading companies. But most disruptive innovations create substantial new growth before they cause that pain.

You should always look for opportunities to test innovations on a subset of users if you can.