Innovation Quotes

"Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation."

"Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change."

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

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."

"If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late."

"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

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

"Everything can always be done better than it is being done."

"Invention requires a long-term willingness to be misunderstood."

"Different and new is relatively easy. Doing something that's genuinely better is very hard."

"Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth."

"Doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1."

"Innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much."

"There's a way to do it better - find it."

"An idea is salvation by imagination."

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."

"We have to be willing to be wrong, because that’s how we learn."

"Originals are not different from the rest of us. They feel fear and doubt. They just take action anyway."

"The essence of strategy is not just about competing, but about creating unique value."

"Discontent is the first necessity of progress."

"I'm as proud of many of the things we haven't done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things."

"Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own."

"Innovation comes from people meeting in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea."

"To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular."

"The only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."

"The difficulty lies not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones."