Schumpeter Innovation Quotes & Sayings

My favourite bit of advice comes from Dr. Daniel Amen's 18, 40, 60 Rule:
At 18 you worry about what everyone thinks of you. At 40 you don't care.
At 60 you realise no one was thinking about you anyway! — Daniel G. Amen

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. To be free in the world, you must die to the world. Then the universe is your own, it becomes your body, an expression and a tool. The happiness of being absolutely free is beyond description. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Innovations are changes which cannot be decomposed into infinitessimal steps. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame. — T. Boone Pickens

Oooo ... He's being a saucy motherfu*ker tonight. He does wrong and I'm the one who gets treated like the whore of Babylon. Fine, he wants a show I'll give him a damn show. — S.K. Logsdon

Instead of thinking of this and that, one thing after the other, let your mind recognize itself in a single moment. When the mind recognizes itself, there is no thing to see there. It's just wide open. That's because the essence of mind is empty. It's wide open and free — Tsoknyi Rinpoche

I hope for my children, and for all Mexicans, that they can be proud to be Mexican, proud of their heritage, and proud that they have a peaceful, inclusive, vibrant country that is playing a role in the world. — Enrique Pena Nieto

Mistakes are inevitable, but what is not, and what will set us apart, is our ability to learn from them — Nick Trout

The strategic stimulus to economic development in Schumpeter's analysis is innovation, defined as the commercial or industrial application of something new
a new product, process or method of production, a new market or source of supply, a new form of commercial, business or financial organization. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

Surely, nothing can be more plain or even more trite common sense than the proposition that innovation [ ... ] is at the center of practically all the phenomena, difficulties, and problems of economic life in capitalist society. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

The world was going to change again. I should have worn nicer shoes. — Kim Harrison

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?
A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life! — Oscar Wilde

No matter how many times I visit New York City, I am always struck by the same thing - a yellow taxicab. — Scott Adams

The thing I like about the sci-fi genre is that you get to examine universal themes and polarizing moral choices. The characters have a lot on their shoulders and are often trying to survive in some very difficult and hostile environments. — Jaime Murray

When they brag about god, I just hear jingling gold coins. — Toba Beta

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride
if responsibility robs him of his manhood. — Stephen King

what's generally expected, and come prepared. — Kate White