Top 100 Innovation Quotes

Let’s see famous Innovation Quotes

People often mistake technology for a static picture. It’s less like a picture and more like a movie. It’s the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It’s the acceleration.– Elon Musk

“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations.”- Steve Jobs
“Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way” – Tom Freston
Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers’ ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace. – Ron Kind
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
“Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat.” — Steve Jobs
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.- Steve Jobs
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” –Arthur C. Clarke
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.“ – Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931), Inventor
“Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.” —Alfred North Whitehead
If we’re building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.– Marc Andreesen

“Innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 pm at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem. It’s ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea.” – Steve Jobs
“Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s all about saying no to all but the most crucial features” – Steve Jobs
The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human– John Naisbitt
“Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something and it doesn’t work and it takes confidence to say we haven’t failed yet. … Ultimately you become commercially successful.” – Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School professor
“Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.” – Seth Godin, author and entrepreneur
“What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.” – Tim O’Reilly
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.- Milan Kundera
“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
“I want to put a ding in the universe.” –Steve Jobs
“What is the calculus of innovation? The calculus of innovation is really quite simple: Knowledge drives innovation, innovation drives productivity, productivity drives economic growth.“ – William Brody, Scientist

“Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.” —William J. Cameron
All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.– Martin Rees
“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.”- Steve Jobs
“Innovation is any change big or small that makes a difference” – Thomas Smith
21st century businesses will rely on American science, technology, research and development. – Barack Obama
“Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.” – Jeff Bezos, Amazon
“Technology like art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.” – Daniel Bell
“Innovation: Imagine the future and fill in the gaps. — Brian Halligan
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.- Albert Einstein
“Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve. – J. K. Rowling

Innovation is the unrelenting drive to break the status quo and develop anew where few have dared to go.“- Steven Jeffes, Marketing & business expert
“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” —Theodore Levitt
Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.– Marsha Blackburn
“Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.” – Steve Jobs
“Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work. — Edwards Deming
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. – Andy Warhol
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” – Steve Jobs
“Innovation is finding a better way to make things a little better” – Saji Ijiyemi
Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.– Jay Inslee
“It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.’”- Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief, Vogue

“The great growling engine of change – technology.” – Alvin Toffler
“No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.”— Seth Godin
Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity… and these in turn rely on the education of our people.- Julia Gillard
Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.- Dean Kamen
“Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open. – Thomas Dewar
“You can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level.” –Albert Einstein
“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.“- Theodore Levitt
“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation, in its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.” —J. K. Rowling
With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.– Henry Rollins
The true work of innovation is not coming up with something big and new, but instead recombining things that already exist” – Erik Brynjolfsson

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.– S J Perelman
“The roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself. They are always in the wider historical context. They require new ways of seeing. As Einstein put it, “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” – David Brooks, New York Times columnist
“Innovation is the outcome of a habit, not a random act.” – Sukant Ratnakar
“I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.” — Bill Gates
There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.- Brene Brown
India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.- Samantha Power
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke
“Innovation is key. Only those who have the agility to change with the market and innovate quickly will survive.” — Robert T. Kiyosaki
“Innovation is more likely to come from a person who sits down and does the same thing every single day until they become an expert than from a person who sits down once because they feel inspired” – Stacy Caprio
One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology.– Alan Greenspan

“Imagination plus innovation equals realization.”–Denis Waitley
“Innovation is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth” – Peter Drucker
“The technology you use impresses no one. The experience you create with it is everything.” – Sean Gerety
“Innovation is the unrelenting drive to break the status quo and develop anew where few have dared to go” – Steven Jeffes
“It’s not that we use technology, we live technology.” – Godfrey Reggio
Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers
and get their feedback and understand their needs.-Bill Gates
“Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” –Dr. Albert, Szent- Györgyi
“If you look at history, innovation doesn’t come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.“- Steven Johnson (born 1968), Science author & media theorist
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” —Alan Kay, computer scientist

“There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.” —Brené Brown
The speed at which technology evolves affects everyone; we repeatedly hear that constant innovation is overwhelming for consumers, who struggle to keep pace.– Ross Levinsohn
“When you don’t have to ask for permission, innovation thrives” – Steven Johnson; Where Good Ideas Come From
“Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.” – Stewart Brand
“Focus on how the end-user customers perceive the impact of your innovation – rather than on how you, the innovators, perceive it.”– Thomas A. Edison
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.- Winston Churchill
“To stay ahead in innovation, look at horizontal industries and the ones leading your current industry, someone is always doing something new.“- Jeff Butler, Author & Keynote speaker
“Innovation is about moving forward, and it can take you to a whole other place” – Pearl Zhu
“Innovation doesn’t come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect” – Steven Johnson
“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

“When looking to innovate—fail forward. Innovation can be a chaotic process, embrace it and learn from your failures” – Luke Wester
“Innovation is progress in the face of tradition.“- Divad
“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 Bennis
“Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.” —Edith Widder
“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 Bennis
“Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” – Christian Lous Lange
“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate” – Margaret Heffernan
“Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze” – Peter Drucke
“Innovators are the ones whose dreams are clearer than the reality that tells them they’re crazy” – Simon Sinek
“Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.”— Bill Gates

“There’s nothing efficient about innovation.”— Simon Sinek
Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress. – Li Keqiang
“Most innovation involves doing the things we do every day a little bit better rather than creating something completely new and different.“- Darin
“Innovators are pioneers, great problem-solvers; and creators of a better context” – Pearl Zhu
There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn’t how we’ve approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.- Mark Zuckerberg
“Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped.”— Eric Thomas
“Great innovation only happens when people aren’t afraid to do things differently.”— Georg Cantor
“Be an innovator, not an imitator.“ – Audrey Carballo, CEO at Phoenix1
“Innovation is saying “no” to 1,000 things” – Steve Jobs