Innovation Quotes

"As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time."
Francis Bacon

"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

"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
Eric Hoffer

"Everybody has a 1,000-horsepower mind; the trouble is they only use about 1 horsepower."
George Prince

"Innovation 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 Bennis

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

"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

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
Charles Darwin

"I believe in being an innovator."
Walt Disney

"Live out your imagination, not your history."
Stephen Covey

"Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things."
Theodore Levitt

"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."
Ted Levitt

"If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative."
Woody Allen

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."
Niccolo Machiavelli

"If you want to be more creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society."
Jean Piaget

"If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be."
Yogi Berra

"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

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."
Francis Bacon

"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind."
F. Scott Fitzgerald

"This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is of no value to us."
Western Union Internal Memo, 1876

"Everyone who has 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 that makes a difference."
Nolan Bushnell