Innovative Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old innovative quotes, innovative sayings, and innovative proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period. Brene Brown
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable. William Pollard
Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress. Li Keqiang
Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before. Tom Freston
We have to be innovative, we have to be fresh, we have to be new. People are counting on that. Sarah Barthel
It takes a tremendous amount of passion to do innovative things every day. Jane Pratt
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. Alfred North Whitehead
Innovation only survives when people believe in their own ideas. Levo League
It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice. David Landes
To succeed you have to be innovative. Ted Turner
Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization but only when they fall on fertile ground. Marcus Buckingham
In essence, innovation is the use of something that is new and unique, and you are able to create its business value. Pearl Zhu
The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation. Piero Scaruffi
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. Steve Jobs
Innovation comes from recombining existing technology and different perspectives in innovative ways. Charles Koch
If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail. Jeff Bezos
Being innovative is to allow yourself to expose your mind to something great that has potential to change lives and the world positively and you take action on it. Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity. Michael Porter
Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation. Dean Kamen
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. Peter Drucker
Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free. Joe Biden
A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible. Drew Houston
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. A. Warhol
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate. Margaret Heffernan
Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace. Bill Gates
Innovative wisdom with purpose defines a leader. Debasish Mridha
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old. Peter F. Drucker
Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented. Amy Poehler
There's nothing efficient about innovation. Simon Sinek
Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way. Tom Freston
If you want an innovative environment, hire innovative people, listen to them tell you what they want, and do it. Arthur D. Levinson
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. Woody Allen
Innovation is created as a result of constructive conflict. Jeff DeGraff
It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not. Andy Hargreaves
Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds. Dorothy Thompson