Business Innovation Quotes:

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

- Theodore Levitt

topic: Change, Creativity, Thinking, Innovation And Business, Innovation Inspiration

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.474, Princeton University Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Anon, Insanity And Genius

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

- Steve Jobs

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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Way In Life

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

- Alan Kay

topic: Worry, Way, Live By, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

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

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Wise, Innovation, Social Innovation, Innovation And Business

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

- Andy Warhol

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Managing Change, Times Have Changed

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

- Edwin Land

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

topic: Inspiring, Courage, Failure, Creative People, Innovation And Business

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Success, Business, Two, Business Growth, Business Innovation

We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.

- Steve Ballmer

topic: Believe, Reality, Innovation, Belive, Business Innovation

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Philosophical, Artist, People, Different Jobs, Macintosh

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

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Success, Confidence, Motivation Goal Setting, Definition Of Leadership

If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Positive, Dream, Limits, About Success, Inner Growth

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Educational, Trying Something New, Innovation And Business

The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Confidence, Courage, Fear, Innovation And Business, Business Innovation

I want to put a ding in the universe.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Crush, Innovation And Business, Innovation And Leadership

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

topic: Life, Motivational, Change, Social Progress, Man And Superman

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2451, e-artnow

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Source Of Life, Innovation And Business

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

source: "Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Time, Money, Managing People, Innovation And Business

Believe that things will work out... follow your intuition and curiosity... trust your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path... You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future... The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it... Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Believe, Heart, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

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

topic: Thinking, Hands, Yesterday, Innovation And Business, Innovative Leadership

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Witty, Writing, Inspire Creativity, Big Ideas

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

- Thomas J. Watson

topic: Motivation, Inspiration, Failure, Inspiration And Innovation, Watson

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Yoga, Passion, Innovation And Business, Innovation And Leadership

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

topic: Congratulations, Discovery, Mind, Innovation And Business, Meetings Of The Minds

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Ambition, Men, Progress, Social Progress, Man And Superman

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

- Howard Aiken

topic: Life And Love, Business, Congratulations, Daily Work, Innovation And Business

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

- Mark Twain

topic: Communication, Love Is, Skills, Brilliant Ideas, Effective Communication

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

- William Pollard

source: "Why It’s Dangerous to Become ‘Too Comfortable’" by Alicia T. Glenn, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

topic: Creativity, Innovation, Inevitable Change, Initiate, Innovation And Business

History is the same thing over and over again.

- Woody Allen

topic: History, Anon, Insanity And Sanity, Special Talents, Mojo

It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

- Steve Jobs

source: "Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.

topic: Best Job, People, Innovation, Managing People, Innovation And Business

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

- Demosthenes

source: "Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, (p. 511), 1897.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Business, Innovation And Business, Innovation And Leadership

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

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

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Positive, Daily Work, Social Entrepreneurship

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

- Carl Jung

topic: Opposites, Innovation, Energy, Innovation And Business, Potential Energy

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Motivational, Courage, Clever, Innovation And Business, Inspirational Winning

The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.

- Nolan Bushnell

topic: Acceptance, Ideas, Rejection, Innovators, Business Innovation

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Night, Thinking, Innovation And Business, Innovation And Leadership

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Hope, Spiritual, Social Innovation, Innovation And Business

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

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Past, Way, Study, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspiration, Way, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs, Creating Worlds

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Success, Business, Social Innovation, Innovation And Business

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

- Belva Davis

source: Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

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

topic: Creativity, Opportunity, Innovation, Initiate, Innovation And Business

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

- David Lloyd George

source: "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

topic: Inspirational, Success, Two, Discovering Yourself, Innovation And Business

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

- Henry Ford

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inspiring Business, Inspirational Success Failure

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Top Management, Marketing And Sales

I start where the last man left off.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Men, Discovery And Invention, Business Innovation