Quote: One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. Author: Walter Bagehot 1826-1877, British Economist, Critic
Quote: To innovate is not to reform. Author: Edmund Burke 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman
Quote: Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics. Author: Coco Chanel 1883-1971, French Couturier
Quote: Pure innovation is more gross than error. Author: George Chapman 1557-1634, British Dramatist, Translator, Poet
Quote: INNOVATION is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation. Author: Peter F. Drucker 1909-, American Management Consultant, Author
Quote: Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses. Author: Barbara Ehrenreich 1941-, American Author, Columnist
Quote: Innovators are inevitably controversial. Author: Eva Le Gallienne
Quote: INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form. Author: Watts Humprey
Quote: Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. Author: Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826, Third President of the USA
Quote: Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. Author: Steve Jobs 1955-, American Businessman, Founder of Apple Computers
Quote: CREATIVITY is thinking up new things. INNOVATION is doing new things. Author: Theodore Levitt
Quote: No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes. Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author
Quote: An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning. Author: Max Planck 1858-1947, German Theoretical Physicist
Quote: The INNOVATION point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams. Author: W. Arthur Porter
Quote: You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back and take the swag. Author: Ezra Pound 1885-1972, American Poet, Critic
Quote: Most new things are not good, and die an early death; but those which push themselves forward and by slow degrees force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom, and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasoning prejudice. Author: Thomas Brackett Reed 1839-1902, American Republican Politician
Quote: Innovation is the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the old in a new way. Author: Michael Vance American Creativity Expert, Lecturer
Quote: The absence of constraints is the death of creativity. Author: Mike Heffernan High Tech Visionary