Top 132 Innovator Quotes & Sayings

The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course.

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

To be an innovator, you can't be worried about making mistakes.

Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.

In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.

I'm not an innovator.

My goal is to be an innovator, to break boundaries within my industry, and to branch out to multiple other industries.

The innovator is not an opponent of the old; he is a proponent of the new.

While global research is crucial, the U.S. must maintain its leadership role as the world's innovator for both medical advancement and job creation.

Very few charter schools are being created in some of the best school districts in the state. If you're an educational innovator, that isn't where the greatest need is.

The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.

It’s very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it’s merely about combining ingredients, but that’s something you can do with your eyes closed.

As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit, and it wasn't long before my family became part of the infamous 1%.

The innovator creates a business where they are making money, even when they sleep.

At the point that an idea approaches perfection, fashion and expectations surge ahead, leaving the innovator with considerable room to find further improvements.

I am very proud to align myself with Miken - a brand known as an innovator and leader in the development of high performance sports equipment.

Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting.

The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.

I'm not the comic innovator that Bill Murray and Eddie Murphy are. I can't just come out with an incredible line.

My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.

An innovator is one who does not know it cannot be done.

Time is the greatest innovator.

I'm interested in the innovator and the early adopter.

We have this highly irrational system of incentivizing innovation for clean and green technologies, where we allow the innovator to have a temporary monopoly and then mark up the price of the product or sell licenses at high prices to those who want to use the kind of product that the innovator has invented. This system is collectively irrational because many people, to avoid the inflated prices of still-patented cleaner and greener technologies, opt for some older technology that is much more polluting.

My advice for any entrepreneur or innovator is to get into the food industry in some form so you have a front-row seat to what's going on.

What's the DNA of a marketer? We call it the 4-I's: instigator, implementer, innovator, and integrator.

Take note of the fact that I am a follower (of the religion) and not an innovator.

The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit.

Coach may have been the greatest innovator the sport has ever had.

I like to think that Not For Sale is the Juniper Networks of the social section, a disruptive innovator.

The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined.

I make a timeless music. I think I've made my mark as a lyricist and as an innovator and as a tastemaker.

True originator, innovator and creator, Thinkin' independent but I'm sayin' something major.

What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at substituting new values and ideas for old ones.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

There is no greater goal than to truly improve Mr and Ms Everyone's health, as an innovator that is where I want to spend my energy.

The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today.

It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.

He was an original, an innovator, and his influence will forever live on in our culture. Whether they know it or not, all DJs have been influenced by him. Thank you, DJ AM.

We at Interscope put projects out with anyone we believe has a great idea and is a true talent, whether it's a musician, photographer, software developer, or technology innovator.

I'm not a pirate. I'm an innovator.

I believe in being an innovator.

I am not a visual innovator.

[Wynton] Marsalis does not aspire to be an innovator, no one else is allowed to have new ideas either.

The American economy has always been the innovator in the world, and we're starting to see some tremendous increases in innovation, especially in the clean energy sector.

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

Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people - I am ready to lead.

This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.

I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

There's a general belief that failure is the friend of the innovator, but I've come to view it a different way.

As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead.

There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things..... Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable.

The innovator's motto is this: I succeed or I learn but I never fail.

Cisco has been both a pioneer in legitimizing VoIP as an alternative to traditional telephony but also an innovator as it has maintained its competitive lead over the past decade.

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

There's nothing wrong with being an innovator, but how do you innovate? Are you just destroying the place, or are you protecting the place?