Innovation Quotes
Top 30 Innovation Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)
I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and invent it.
- Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American
inventor, pictured right.
No 2
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come,
- Isaac Newton (1642-1727),English
scientist, pictured right.
No 3
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American
inventor, pictured right.
No 4
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have...It’s about the people you have, how you’re
led, and how much you get it.
- Steve Jobs (1955-2011), co-founder of Apple, pictured
right.
No 5
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
- Helen Keller (1880-1968), American
campaigner for the disabled, pictured right.
No 6
Opportunity is the source of innovation,
- Peter Drucker, pictured right, Innovation and
Entrepreneurship (1985)
No 7
Innovation requires a trust in the future.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, pictured right,
in The Change Masters
(1984)
No 8
To be useful an invention must not only fill a need, it must be an economical and efficient solution to that
need
- David Packard (1912-96),
pictured right , co-founder of Hewlett-Packard.
No 9
Get a good idea and stay with it. Do it, and work at it until it’s done right.
- Walt Disney (1901-66), film maker, pictured
right.
No 10
If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
-Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian
painter, sculptor, architect and engineer, pictured right.
No 11
Without experiment I am nothing.
- Michael Faraday (1791-1867) English
chemist and physicist, pictured right.
Other comments on experimentation are
In the field of experimentation, chance favours only the prepared mind.
- Louis Pasteur (1822-95) French
scientist, pictured right.
Everything comes from experiment.
- Josiah Wedgwood (1730-95),
English pottery manufacturer, pictured right.
The time you spend experimenting without commercial pressure is very valuable.
- Nick Park (1958- ) English film animator and
creator of Wallace and Gromit, pictured right
No 12
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973),Spanish artist,
pictured right.
No
13
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
- Marie Curie (1867-1934) Polish-born
French physicist, pictured right
No 14
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626), English
writer and philosopher, pictured right.
No 15
Imitation is suicide.
- Dale Carnegie, pictured right, in How to Stop Worrying
and Start Living (1944)
No 16
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other
talent,
-Isaac Newton (1642-1727) ,English
scientist, pictured right.
No 17
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
- Mark Twain (1835-1910), pictured right, American writer.
No 18
Necessity...the mother of invention.
- Plato (427-347 BC) Greek philosopher, pictured
right.
No 19
Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion, more interesting than
the inventions themselves.
- Gottfried Leibniz
(1646-1716) German philosopher and mathematician, pictured right.
No 20
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- Harry Warner (1881-1958), American founder of the Warner Brothers film studio, pictured
right.
No 21
You always have to keep pushing to innovate
- Steve Jobs (1955-2011), co-founder of Apple, pictured
right.
No 22
Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present.
- Peter Drucker (pictured right) in Innovation and
Entrepreneurship, 1985.
No 23
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different,
- Coco Chanel (1883-1971),
pictured right, French fashion designer and businesswoman.
No 24
Experimenting and failing.
James Dyson (1947- ), pictured right,
the English inventor, (on the key to invention).
No 25
If you’re too focused on your current business, it’s hard to change and concentrate on innovating.
- Bill Gates (1955-), American co-founder of Microsoft,
pictured right
No 26
Our plan is to lead the public with new products.
- Akio Morita (1921-1999), co-founder of Sony,
pictured right.
No 27
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things.
- Henry David Thoreau
(1817-62), American philosopher, pictured right.
No 28
See the future before it arrives.
-Gary Hamel, pictured right above, and
C.K. Prahalad, pictured right , in
Competing for the
Future (1996)
No 29
Truth is what works.
- William James (1842–1910),
American philosopher and psychologist, pictured right.
No 30
Theory Y is an invitation to innovation.
- Douglas McGregor, pictured right, in The Human Side of Enterprise (1960)
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