#innovation

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#advance #cannot #danger #every #fearing

I am resolutely opposed to all innovation, all change, but I am determined to understand what’s happening. Because I don’t choose just to sit and let the juggernaut roll over me. Many people seem to think that if you talk about something recent, you’re in favor of it. The exact opposite is true in my case. Anything I talk about is almost certainly something I’m resolutely against. And it seems to me the best way to oppose it is to understand it. And then you know where to turn off the buttons. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#innovation #change

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow. ↗

— Charles Bower

#ideas #innovation #death

With a clever strategy, each action is self-reinforcing. Each action creates more options that are mutually beneficial. Each victory is not just for today but for tomorrow. ↗

— Max McKeown

#leadership #strategic #strategic-planning #strategy #leadership

BE OPEN TO new thoughts, to new people, to new principles, to new ideas, to new experiences. "NEW" MAKES US GROW ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#personal-growth #self-development #self-improvement #experience

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#capacity #create #endows #entrepreneurship #innovation

I think there have to be Bachs and Beethovens. We may have - there are so many more people. Musical training is available to so many more, but it may be that we've hit a right wall in terms of accessible styles and since we demand innovation as a criterion of genius, there may not be more innovative styles to be found. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#available #criterion #demand #found #genius

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

— Dale Earnhardt

#childress #important #innovations #made #myself

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#because #been #calling #comes #each

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#being #dell #industry #innovation #make