Top 100 Innovation Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.”

— Steve Jobs

52. “Imagination plus innovation equals realization.”

— Denis Waitley

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

— Brené Brown

54. “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

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

— Tom Freston

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

— Georg Cantor

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Robin S. Sharma

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

— Simon Sinek

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

— Eric Thomas

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Bill Gates

63. “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

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

— John S. Herrington

65. “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

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

— Stephen R. Covey

67. “Marketing is about innovation.”

— Beth Comstock

68. “Making changes to better appeal to customers is innovation.”

— Peter F. Drucker

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

— David Ogilvy

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

— Milan Kundera

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

— Walt Disney

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

— Alfred Nobel

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

— Bill Gates

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

— Robert Noyce

75. “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

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

— Peter F. Drucker

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

— Denis Waitley

78. “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

79. “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

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

— Scott Adams

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

— Sam Walton

82. “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

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

— Mohanbir Sawhney

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

— Peter F. Drucker

85. “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

86. “Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.”

— Charlie Munger

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

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Steve Jobs

89. “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”

— Steve Jobs

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

— Elon Musk

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

— Linus Torvalds

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Walt Disney

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

— Elon Musk

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

— Elon Musk

96. “Whatever you’re thinking, think bigger.”

— Tony Hsieh

97. “Think Different.”

— Steve Jobs

98. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”

— Milton Berle

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

— Albert Einstein

100. “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”

— Henry Ford