Top 50 Innovation Quotes (2024 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. “Innovation is key. Only those who have the agility to change with the market and innovate quickly will survive.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

7. “Imagination plus innovation equals realization.”

— Denis Waitley

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8. “There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.”

— Brené Brown

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9. “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

10. “Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.”

— Tom Freston

11. “Great innovation only happens when people aren’t afraid to do things differently.”

— Georg Cantor

12. “Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.”

— Bill Gates

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13. “Small daily – seemingly insignificant – improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.”

— Robin S. Sharma

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14. “There’s nothing efficient about innovation.”

— Simon Sinek

15. “Innovation is rewarded. Execution is worshipped.”

— Eric Thomas

16. “Innovation, having fun and giving back, should be the core values for everyone.”

— Hillary Clinton

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17. “Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.”

— Bill Gates

18. “Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All the rest are costs.”

— Peter F. Drucker

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19. “There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach.”

— John S. Herrington

20. “Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.”

— Robin S. Sharma

21. “Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can’t sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.”

— Stephen R. Covey

22. “Marketing is about innovation.”

— Beth Comstock

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23. “Making changes to better appeal to customer is INNOVATION.”

— Peter F. Drucker

24. “Business only has two functions – innovation and marketing.”

— Milan Kundera

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25. “Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.”

— David Ogilvy

26. “If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.”

— Alfred Nobel

27. “You don’t build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.”

— Walt Disney

28. “Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.”

— Bill Gates

29. “Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places?”

— Robert Noyce

30. “Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.”

— John F. Kennedy

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31. “There are only two things in a business that make money – innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.”

— Peter F. Drucker

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32. “You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.”

— Denis Waitley

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33. “Every day were saying, ‘How can we keep this customer happy?’ How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don’t, somebody else will.”

— Bill Gates

34. “I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.”

— Steve Jobs

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35. “Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.”

— Scott Adams

36. “Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.”

— Sam Walton

37. “I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.”

— Christopher Hitchens

38. “To gain customer insights, we must understand that we are prisoners of what we know and what we believe.”

— Mohanbir Sawhney

39. “Managing innovation will increasingly become a challenge to management, and especially to top management, and a touchstone of its competence.”

— Peter F. Drucker

40. “I’m an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.”

— Bill Gates

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41. “Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.”

— Charlie Munger

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42. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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43. “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Steve Jobs

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45. “Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

— Elon Musk

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46. “Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”

— Linus Torvalds

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47. “You never fail until you stop trying.”

— Albert Einstein

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48. “If you can dream it, you can do it.”

— Walt Disney

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49. “I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.”

— Elon Musk

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50. “If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”

— Elon Musk

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