Innovative Leadership Quotes:

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

- Steve Jobs

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

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

- George S. Patton

source: "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton. Chapter "Reflections and Suggestions", 1947.

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

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Top Management, Management Motivation

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

topic: Real, Creativity, Imagination, Innovative Leadership, Power Of Imagination

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

The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.

- Lawrence M. Miller

topic: Creativity, Organization, Achievement, Innovative Leadership

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

- Walter Lippmann

topic: Funny Inspirational, Thinking, Innovative Leadership, Nonconformity, Thinking Alike

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

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Change, Leadership, Top Management, Management Motivation

I dream of things that are not and ask why not.

- Robert Kennedy

topic: Dream, Innovation, Why Not, Innovative Leadership

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Educational, Live And Learn, Top Management

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

- Jack Welch

source: Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Leadership, Leader, Growing, Innovative Leadership, Workforce

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

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Change, Management Motivation, Business Life

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership, True Leader, Innovation And Leadership

Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.

- Watts Humphrey

source: Watts S. Humphrey (1997). “Managing Technical People: Innovation, Teamwork, and the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Jobs, Ocean, People, Maritime, Innovative Leadership

All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules; otherwise we would never have anything new.

- Charles Kettering

source: Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

topic: Creativity, Innovation, Development, Innovative Leadership, Human Development

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 innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.

- W. Arthur Porter

topic: Dream, Opportunity, Ideas, Innovative Leadership, Pivotal Moments

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

- Theodore Hesburgh

source: Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

topic: Leadership, Business, Blow, True Leader, Innovative Leadership

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

topic: Creativity, Organization, Ideas, Innovative Leadership, Monotonous

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

topic: Strength, Leadership, Men, Innovative Leadership, Inspiration And Innovation

Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.

- W. Edwards Deming

topic: Imagination, Innovation, Vision, Innovative Leadership, Innovators