Top 187 Innovators Quotes & Sayings

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

Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.

All innovators face challenges and seldom enjoy family support.

My father was a brilliant inventor and businessman. He taught me to appreciate the opportunities that America offers to innovators.

Read these 3 books?-?Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.

We can support innovators and entrepreneurs.

Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness.

It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

People who live in more than two countries are more successful innovators.

The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

Good innovators like to solve business crossword puzzles.

America's small businesses and manufacturers are innovators ready to usher in a new wave of growth and opportunity if given access to foreign markets.

Innovators reimagine our world in so many areas. We need them to help reimagine what government can and should be.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

You get what I call the natural progression, the three Is. The innovators, the imitators, and the idiots.

In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer.

At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to build a green energy economy.

What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrow's ideas.

Groundbreaking innovators generate and execute far more ideas.

Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.

Entrepreneurs and innovators across the country are developing and deploying new data-powered IT tools to help clinicians succeed at delivering better care at lower cost.

A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the control of the past. A free culture is not a culture without property, just as a free market is not a market in which everything is free. The opposite of a free culture is a "permission culture" -- a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past.

There are three kinds of people: 1. Innovators. 2. Imitators. 3. Idiots.

Companies, communities and governments have to be innovators, and they cannot do it alone.

Innovators are inevitably controversial.

We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.

The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.

Anything is possible, but not always probable. Innovators increase the probability of the impossible.

One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed to innovation that they will give the innovators a lot of money to spend.

I've participated at summits where I was the only chef. I was surrounded with thinkers and writers and innovators.

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

At O'Reilly, the way we think about our business is that we're not a publisher; we're not a conference producer; we're a company that helps change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

For innovators who find safe and workable solutions to global warming, the rewards will be staggering.

We are single-mindedly focused on partnering with the best innovators pursuing the biggest markets.

What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrows ideas.

China is a keen observer of trends elsewhere in the world, and it's going to give our own innovators a run for their money.

I am humbled to be selected as a TiE Star recipient and to be included among such an esteemed group of true innovators and intrepid entrepreneurs.

We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.

As consumer adoption of wireless devices continues to soar, Wi-Fi congestion is becoming a critical problem for consumers and innovators.

I thank goodness every day that I played in the no-huddle, and it was Sam Wyche in Cincinnati who's really one of the innovators of the no-huddle.

Rules designed to ensure competition ensure that innovators with new ideas can challenge incumbents on a level playing field.

Not only do innovators have to deal with all of the fundamental challenges of innovation, they have to do so in an environment that often is implicitly hostile towards innovation.

You can absolutely be what you can't see! That's what innovators and disruptors do.

I'm excited to have the opportunity to lead one of the true e-commerce innovators.

It turns out that in the federal government, there are a lot of innovators.

I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

The question for America is pretty simple: either we want a bunch of bureaucrats in Washington telling us what we can't do, or we empower American innovators to unlock things that we can do.

We are the leaders that we have been waiting for. We are the social innovators and entrepreneurs that we have been seeking.

Important artists are innovators whose work changes the practices of their successors.

I was one of the innovators of the TLC Match; some would arguably say that I am the master of the Ladder Match.

Our job as leaders is to find those innovators and release their mojo - lean startup-style - to serve the American people better.

When you're surrounded by the world's leading social innovators, it's impossible not to be inspired by the energy and the 'what if' possibilities all around us.

Becoming a culturally intelligent innovators starts with something as basic as exercising self-control.

The sad truth is as difficult as the first mile can be for entrepreneurs, it is doubly tough inside most large companies as innovators can face some significant headwinds.

Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer ... But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable ... They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.

The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.

Lombardi, Shula, Landry and Gibbs were innovators. Bill Walsh was a visionary . . . .

It's not like I am working with the great innovators of all time, but at the same time, they are my friends.