Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old innovation quotes, innovation sayings, and innovation proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.Peter Drucker
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Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.Marc Andreessen
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.Edmund Burke
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Pure innovation is more gross than error.George Chapman
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Innovation is creativity with a job to do.John Emmerling
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Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things.Edward Felten
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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.Steve Jobs
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Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.Tom Freston
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Innovation is the calling card of the future.Anna Eshoo
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There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.Brene Brown
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Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.Tim Berners-Lee
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Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.Ludwig Von Mises
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Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.Bill Gates
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A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.Vivek Wadhwa
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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.Dr. Linus Pauling
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.Albert Einstein
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Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.James Bertrand
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There's a way to do it better - find it.Thomas Edison
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The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.Edwin H. Land
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Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.James Russell Lowell
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.Albert Einstein
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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.Frank Tyger
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Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.Watts Humprey
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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.Erich Fromm
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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.Ken Robinson
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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 Brower
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All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.Albert Camus
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.Alan Kay
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The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.Arthur Koestler
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Innovation is the ability to convert ideas into invoices.L. Duncan
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The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.Arthur C. Clarke
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Innovation is the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the old in a new way.Michael Vance
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Get a good idea, and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done, and done right.Walt Disney
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If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.Woody Allen
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.General George Patton
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Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.Alfred North Whitehead
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Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.Vivek Wadhwa
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An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.Clayton M. Christensen
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Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.P. J. O'Rourke
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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
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Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.Steve Jobs
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When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.Larry Ellison
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For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.Margaret Heffernan
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Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.Ferran Adria
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.Alan Greenspan
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Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.Bill Gates
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Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.Michael Porter
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Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat.Steve Jobs
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Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.Thomas Disch
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A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.Albert Einstein
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The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.Bob Iger
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Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.Brene Brown
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The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.Brian Tracy
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The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.Carl Jung
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problem well stated is a problem half-solved.Charles Kettering
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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.Charles Kettering
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It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.Charles Peguy
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If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.Clarence Darrow
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.Demosthenes
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Imagination plus innovation equals realization.Denis Waitley
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.Edward de Bono
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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.Emile Chartier
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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.Harold Geneen
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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.Henry Ford
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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.Jim Rohn
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.John Cage
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There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach.John S. Herrington
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The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.Lawrence M. Miller
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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca
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The best vision is insight.Malcolm Forbes
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Innovation is fostered by information gathered from new connections; from insights gained by journeys into other disciplines or places; from active, collegial networks and fluid, open boundaries. Innovation arises from ongoing circles of exchange, where information is not just accumulated or stored, but created. Knowledge is generated anew from connections that weren't there before.Margaret J. Wheatley
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We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future. Marshall McLuhan
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.Miguel de Cervantes
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Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.Naveen Jain
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.Nikos Kazantzakis
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If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.Peter Drucker
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The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.Peter Drucker
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Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.Peter Drucker
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Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.Seth Godin
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If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.Seth Godin
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Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.Theodore Levitt
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.Thomas A. Edison
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.Thomas A. Edison
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To have a great idea, have a lot of them.Thomas A. Edison
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.Thomas A. Edison
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Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.Warren G. Bennis
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What is now proved was once only imagined.William Blake
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Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow. William Pollard