The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they’re living. – P. J. O’Rourke
Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things. – Edward Felten
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
A company’s best advantage should be a quality product offered at the right price. That fair competition is what drives innovation. – Chellie Pingree
The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care ‘reform,’ but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation. – Eric Topol
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality. – George Lucas
When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn’t you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it’s shared. – Cameron Sinclair
In Wichita, the district I represent, the ‘Air Capital of the World,’ general aviation is critical to the proper functioning of our airspace and is a key driver of economic growth, innovation, and job creation. – Mike Pompeo
One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with you. They can do what you do better than you or cheaper than you. And in a multinational corporate-free market enterprise, it is the company’s obligation to take the factory to a place where they can make it more cheaply. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades. – Mitch Kapor
An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work. – Dean Kamen
Most companies don’t have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions. – Gary Hamel
I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I’ve been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn’t have years of experience, and yet they changed the world. – Maynard Webb
Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams. – Manmohan Singh
Above and beyond, not only are we an innovation company, we are in service of our clients. – Ginni Rometty
Executives need ample flexibility to respond to the market. That means both reducing costs and increasing innovation. – Mark V. Hurd
Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it’s worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn’t without giving the population leverage in the marketplace. – Maria Cantwell
Nowadays, ideas can meet and mate very much faster than before, and the Internet is only accelerating this process. So innovation is bound to accelerate. – Matt Ridley
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. – George Santayana
We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise. – Narendra Modi
Science, innovation, safety and affordability. Who could oppose United States food policy based on these core principles? Unfortunately, this idea has become unnecessarily controversial in agriculture. – Mike Pompeo
Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation. – Dora Russell
The U.S. has more broadband subscribers than any country other than China. Americans rank at the top in their use of the web, and numerous studies validate that the U.S. is a global innovation powerhouse. The leading Internet and e-commerce companies are located here. – Michael K. Powell
Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE’s not striving for the kind of innovation it’s capable of. – Gary Vaynerchuk
The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore. – Fred Wilson
The neutral and level playing field provided by permissionless innovation has empowered all of us with the freedom to express ourselves and innovate online without having to seek the permission of a remote telecom executive. – Marvin Ammori
Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation. – Dean Kamen
There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation, which is true. But you also have to remember that much of that innovation is constrained within the realities of the foreign policy. – Evgeny Morozov
We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create, from a physicist’s viewpoint, entropy. – Geoffrey West
