Top 100 Innovation Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat.”

— Steve Jobs

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2. “Innovation: Imagine the future and fill in the gaps.”

— Brian Halligan

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3. “Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.”

— W. Edwards Deming

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4. “No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.”

— Seth Godin

5. “I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.”

— Bill Gates

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6. “Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It’s very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. Apple’s been very fortunate in that it’s introduced a few of these.”

— Steve Jobs

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7. “There’s so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There’s so much new that’s going to happen. People don’t have any idea yet how impactful the internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in such a big way.”

— Jeff Bezos

8. “There's a way to do it better - find it.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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9. “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

— Steve Jobs

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10. “Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.”

— Peter F. Drucker

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11. “Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying no to all but the most crucial features.”

— Steve Jobs

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12. “Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.”

— Elon Musk

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13. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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14. “You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.”

— Jeff Bezos

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15. “Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world’s machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.”

— Nikola Tesla

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16. “You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”

— Steve Jobs

17. “Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.”

— Isaac Asimov

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18. “I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It’s the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.”

— Elon Musk

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19. “You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.”

— Reid Hoffman

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20. “Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.”

— Seth Godin

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21. “I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there’ll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets.”

— Elon Musk

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22. “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently...”

— Apple Inc.

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23. “Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.”

— Seth Godin

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Adaptability Quotes

24. “The most damaging phrase in the language is: ‘It’s always been done that way.’”

— Grace Murray Hopper

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25. “Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe.”

— Nikola Tesla

26. “I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.”

— Richard Branson

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27. “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.”

— Steve Jobs

28. “Today’s ‘best practices’ lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.”

— Peter Thiel

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29. “Most innovations fail. And companies that don’t innovate die.”

— Henry Chesbrough

30. “I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”

— Nikola Tesla

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31. “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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32. “I believe in being an innovator.”

— Walt Disney

33. “My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.”

— Jeff Bezos

34. “Innovation is key. Only those who have the agility to change with the market and innovate quickly will survive.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

35. “Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.”

— Seth Godin

36. “For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.”

— Elon Musk

37. “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”

— Frank Zappa

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38. “DO WHAT YOU CAN’T”

— Casey Neistat

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39. “Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.”

— Bill Gates

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40. “I don’t care that they stole my idea... I care that they don’t have any of their own.”

— Nikola Tesla

41. “Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.”

— Barack Obama

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42. “I would rather gamble on our vision than make a ‘me, too’ product.”

— Steve Jobs

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43. “Software is eating the world.”

— Marc Andreessen

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44. “If you’re doing what everyone else is doing, you’re doing it wrong.”

— Casey Neistat

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45. “We’re changing the world with technology.”

— Bill Gates

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46. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

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47. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

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48. “When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‘Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?’ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.”

— Elon Musk

49. “Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.”

— Tim Ferriss

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50. “They did not know it was impossible so they did it.”

— Mark Twain

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