Innovation & Ideas

Category Innovation

Here are some inspiring quotes about innovation along with their authors:

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” — Steve Jobs

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Alan Kay

“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” — Theodore Levitt

“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship… the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.” — Peter Drucker

“There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.” — Brené Brown

“If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.” — Charles Kettering

“Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” — Dr. Albert Szent-Györgyi

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” — Albert Einstein

“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

“When all think alike, then no one is thinking.” — Walter Lippmann

“I am looking for a lot of people who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.” — Henry Ford

“If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it.” — Gordon MacKenzie

“Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.” — William J. Cameron

“Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.” — Alfred North Whitehead

“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Category Ideas

Here are some insightful quotes about ideas along with their authors:

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” — John Steinbeck

“Sometimes the ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It’s a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works. I like a mystery, as you may have noticed.” — J.K. Rowling

“If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.” — Charles Kettering

“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.” — Linus Pauling

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” — Oscar Wilde

“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.” — William J. Cameron

“Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.” — Alfred North Whitehead

“If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it.” — Gordon MacKenzie

“When all think alike, then no one is thinking.” — Walter Lippmann

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” — Albert Einstein

“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” — Theodore Levitt

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Alan Kay

“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

“I am looking for a lot of people who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.” — Henry Ford