Quotes about Innovation

There are a lot of companies - not just Sony and Kodak - that have spent a lot of money trying to make the quality of the digital images comparable with film. But when you're sending these things over the Internet, they don't have to be high quality.

The capitalists are the brains of civilization, because they supply the entire fabric of which all education, enlightenment and human progress consists.

Every man who becomes rich by competition throws down behind him the ladder by which he rises, and keeps others down; but every man who gets rich by creation opens a way for thousands to follow him, and inspires them to do so.

All so-called revelations, referred to in the realm of religion, and all discoveries of basic or new principles in the field of invention, take place through the faculty of creative imagination.

It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine.

The more men who get rich on the competitive plane, the worse for others; the more who get rich on the creative plane, the better for others.

Of all the ages of civilization, this is the most favorable for the development of the imagination, because it is an age of rapid change.

The money which is essential for the conduct of business is as worthless as a sand dune, until it has been mixed with efficient "brains.

Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in thought.

Long before I had ever written a line for publication, or endeavored to deliver a speech in public, I followed the habit of reshaping my own character, by trying to imitate the nine men whose lives and life-works had been most impressive to me. These nine men were Emerson, Paine, Edison, Darwin, Lincoln, Burbank, Napoleon, Ford, and Carnegie. Every night, over a long period of years, I held an imaginary council meeting with this group whom I called my "Invisible Counselors.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Edison concentrated upon the work of harmonizing natural laws