Innovation Quotes

• Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat

  Steve Jobs

  Opportunity, Threat, Innovative

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  Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

  Erich Fromm

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Courage

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  The best vision is insight.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Business, Imagination

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• If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

  Peter Drucker

  Inspiring, Business, Creativity

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• Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

  Theodore Levitt

  Change, Creativity, Thinking

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• There's a way to do it better - find it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Business, Creativity

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  What is now proved was once only imagined.

  William Blake

  Positive, Spiritual, Positivity

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.132, Pearson Education

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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

  Relationship, Creativity, Journey

  Margaret J. Wheatley (1994). “Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe”, Berrett-Koehler Pub

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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

  Thinking, Hands, Yesterday

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• Innovation is the creation of the new, or the re-arranging of the old in a new way

  Mike Vance

  Inspirational, New Beginnings, Way

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• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Children, Imagination, Coaching

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• Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

  Peter Drucker

  Success, Business, Creativity

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.67, Routledge

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• I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

  John Cage

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Conversing with Cage". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1988.

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• No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.

  Seth Godin

  Organization, Ideas, People

  Seth Godin (2004). “Free Prize Inside: How to Make a Purple Cow”, p.52, Penguin

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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

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Business

  "Steve Jobs, the Journey Is the Reward". Book by Jeffrey S. Young, 1988.

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  The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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• Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.

  Jimmy Bertrand

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

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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

  Science, Technology, Promise

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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

  Art, Believe, Creativity

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.603, Simon and Schuster

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• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

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• Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Enemy, Inquiry, Execution

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• Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Wild Imagination, Vivid Imagination

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• In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Life And Love, Creativity, Impossible Things

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