Innovative Quotes

• A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

  Robert Reich

  Leadership, Teamwork, Business

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• Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Witty, Peace

  George W. Bush “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004”, Government Printing Office

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• It takes a tremendous amount of passion to do innovative things every day.

  Jane Pratt

  Passion, Amount

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

  Roger von Oech

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Creativity

  Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial

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• If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Inspirational Life, Hard Work

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

  Edwin Land

  Inspiring, Courage, Failure

  "A Genius and His Magic Camera". Life Magazine, October 27, 1972.

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• Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Innovation, Enemy, Inquiry

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• Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Couple

  John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch (1988). “Conversations with John Steinbeck”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

  Linus Pauling

  Ideas, Creative, Innovation

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• It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

  Steve Jobs

  Memorable, Best Job, Pirate

  "Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple - A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the Future" by John Sculley and John A. Byrne, (p. 157), 1987.

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

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• If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Strength, Leadership, Men

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• 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

  Creativity, Opportunity, Innovation

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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 ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat

  Steve Jobs

  Opportunity, Innovation, Threat

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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, Innovation

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• There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

  Michael Eisner

  Ideas, Innovation, Growth

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• Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Wise, Entrepreneur

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.46, Routledge

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  They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

  Andy Warhol

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I want to put a ding in the universe.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Crush

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.87, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Leadership, Fun

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.152, Routledge

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  A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

  Charles Kettering

  Creativity, Engineering, Innovation

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