Innovation Inspiration Quotes

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

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

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

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

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.

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

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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.

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

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

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

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.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

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.

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.

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

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

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.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

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

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

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

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

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.

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

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

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

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

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

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

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

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

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