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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• 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

  Real, Creativity, Science

  Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld (1966). “Evolution of Physics”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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  The best vision is insight.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Business, Imagination

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• 99 percent of success is built on failure.

  Charles Kettering

  Success, Fear, Failure

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• Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Needs, Whim, Elites

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• The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

  Linus Pauling

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

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• Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Time, Money

  "Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.

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• The future is built on the flow of new ideas.

  Paul Meyer

  Ideas, Flow, Built

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• The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.

  Alan Greenspan

  Process, Courses, Never Ending

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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

  Creativity, Organization, Ideas

  Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”

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• If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

  Alfred Nobel

  Fear, Failure, Creativity

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• After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Order, Years, Ideas

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• It is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of successful innovations.

  Ruth Simmons

  Successful, Giving, Enough

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Someone once said that innovation is a done idea. I agree. I believe that creativity is the individual development and conceptualization and that innovation in an organizational sense is implementing ideas and intentions that come from that creativity. So in a sense, creativity is more a leadership function and innovation is more a managerial function.

  Michael Ray

  Believe, Creativity, Done

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Most companies think of disruption as a threat. But disruptive innovations have tremendous growth potential. If incumbent companies can learn how to harness the forces of disruption, they too can improve their ability to create new-growth businesses.

  Clayton Christensen

  Thinking, Growth, Threat

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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  Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

  Henry Ford

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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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, Way

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• To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Smart, Failure

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• Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

  Brené Brown

  Motivation, Fear, Inspiration

  "Can We Gain Strength From Shame?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 11, 2013.

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  A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.

  Charles Kettering

  Creativity, Engineering, Liberty

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• Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.

  Peter Drucker

  Marketing, Cost, Results

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.90, Routledge

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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

  Growth, Age, Doe

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.183, Routledge

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• Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

  Barack Obama

  Education, Teaching, Airplane

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 25 January 2011, Washington, D.C.

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

  Theodore Levitt

  Change, Creativity, Thinking

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