Ideas And Innovation Quotes:

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

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

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

- Linus Pauling

topic: Inspiring, Education, Business, Inspiration To Write, Logical Ideas

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Social Innovation

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

- Lee Iacocca

source: Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Business, Brilliant Ideas, Effective Communication

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

- Henry Ford

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

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Witty, Business, Making A Living, Life Is Simple

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

- Peter Drucker

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

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

- Woody Allen

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Innovation And Leadership, Innovation Inspiration

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

- John Cage

source: "From mundane to marvellous: Darren Fletcher's startling transformation" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2009.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, 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

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Life, Fall, Patriotic, Inspiration And Creativity, Modern Warfare

Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, ‘Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea, It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.

- Mark Batterson

topic: Taken, Creativity, Games, Social Innovation, Nolan

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

- Arthur Koestler

topic: Inspirational, Education, Business, Obviousness, Innovation And Business

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Art, Creativeness, Creative People

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

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

topic: Inspirational, Letting Go, Creativity, Innovation And Business, Innovation Inspiration

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

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

- Linus Pauling

topic: Ideas, Creative, Innovation, Innovative Ideas, Original Ideas

Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Ideas, Innovation, Done, Innovation And Business, Inspirational And Innovation

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

- John Steinbeck

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Couple, Innovation And Business, Inspirational And Innovation

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

- Margaret Heffernan

topic: Ideas, Innovation, Needs, Research And Innovation, Ideas And Innovation

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

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

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

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

- Emile Chartier

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom, Power Of Ideas, Dangerous Ideas

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

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

- Nolan Bushnell

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

Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.

- Robert M. Hayes

source: Robert M. Hayes (1994). “How I Made Millions with Just a Few Simple Ideas!”, Garrett Pub

topic: Taken, Bad Ass, Ideas, Inspiration And Creativity, Disgruntled

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

Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.

- Theodore Levitt

topic: Change, Ideas, Innovation, Ideas And Innovation

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

The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.

- Carl Ally

topic: Bad Ass, Years, Ideas, Inspiration And Creativity, Inspiration And Innovation

My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

- Steve Jobs

source: "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. 2003.

topic: Teamwork, People, Guy, Innovation And Business, Innovation And Leadership

The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Mistake, Ideas And Innovation

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

- Edward de Bono

topic: Business, Creativity, Bad Ass, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Creativity

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

topic: Order, Years, Ideas, Innovative Ideas, Power Of Ideas

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

- Michael Eisner

topic: Ideas, Innovation, Innovative Ideas, Continuous Learning, Kaizen

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

- Charles Peguy

topic: Essence, Ideas, Innovation, Ideas And Innovation

Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.

- John Dewey

source: John Dewey, Larry A. Hickman (2007). “The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy and Other Essays in Contemporary Thought”, p.11, SIU Press

topic: Attitude, Acceptance, Ideas, Old Ideas, Ideas And Innovation

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Science, Ideas, Firsts, New Ideas, Original Ideas

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.141, Vivekananda Kendra

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Best Success, Innovative Ideas

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

- Rollo May

source: Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Depression, Ideas, Creating, Being Original, Original Ideas

All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.

- Robert H. Schuller

topic: Ideas, Innovation, Impossible, Ideas And Innovation

It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

- Scott Belsky

topic: Business, Ideas, Young Entrepreneurs, Inspirational And Innovation, Make It Happen

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas

- Paula Poundstone

topic: Growing Up, Children, Kids, Original Ideas, Power Of Ideas

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

- John Maynard Keynes

source: "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes (Preface), 1936.

topic: Education, Lying, Escaping, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Creativity

If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.

- Carl Sagan

topic: Science, Ideas, Skeptical, Gullibility, Old Person

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

- Bob Iger

topic: Heart, Creativity, Innovation, Innovative Ideas, Ideas And Innovation

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Years, Genius, Original Ideas, Real Intelligence, Geniality