Inspiration And Innovation Quotes:

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.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

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've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Way In Life, Make Me Feel Better

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

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Thinking, Long, Dwell On The Past, Good Success

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Business, Innovation And Leadership, Inspiration And Innovation

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

- Steve Jobs

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

topic: Change, Positive, Happiness, Times Have Changed, Ready For Change

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

You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Life, Motivational, Karma, Future Success, Innovation And Leadership

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

- David Ogilvy

topic: Inspirational, Business, Creativity, Young Entrepreneurs, Managing People

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

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Making A Difference In The World, Innovation Inspiration

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

- William James

topic: Mean, Creativity, Innovation, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Creativity

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

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat

- Steve Jobs

topic: Opportunity, Innovation, Threat, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Innovation

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Trust, Future Success, Innovation And Leadership

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

- Albert Einstein

topic: Academic Life, Goal, Innovation, Inspiration And Innovation, Inspirational And Innovation

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

- Henry Ford

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

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

- Edward de Bono

topic: Creativity, Forever, Innovation, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Creativity

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

The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause.

- Warren G. Bennis

topic: Creativity, Organization, Creative, Inspiration And Creativity, Inspiration And Innovation

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Teacher, Young Entrepreneurs, Life Wisdom

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

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, About Success, Innovation Inspiration

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

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

- Leo Burnett

source: Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

topic: Creativity, Bad Ass, Thinking, Creative People, Innovation Inspiration

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

- Walt Disney

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Best Success, Social Entrepreneurship

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

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

- Thomas A. Edison

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

- Bill Gates

topic: Leadership, Motivation, Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Business Life

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

- Elbert Hubbard

source: "Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen" by Elbert Hubbard, (p. 370), 1898.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Failure, Make You Think Twice, Innovation Inspiration

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

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

- Steve Jobs

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

The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

- Margaret J. Wheatley

topic: Inspirational, Business, Creativity, Creative People, Innovation Inspiration

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: Change, Work, Life Changing, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

- Thomas J. Watson

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

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

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

- Theodore Levitt

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

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

- Bill Gates

topic: Innovation And Business, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Innovation, Inspirational And Innovation, Innovators

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspiring, Business, Creativity, Innovation Inspiration, Inspiration And Innovation

To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

- Bill Bowerman

topic: Inspiration, Athlete, Innovation, Inspiration And Innovation