Innovation fuels progress, inspires breakthroughs, and keeps the world moving forward.
From the tech industry to the arts, these quotes capture the essence of creativity and daring to think differently.
Let them spark your imagination and motivate you to push boundaries.
Best Innovation Quotes
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay
“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.” – Theodore Levitt
“If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.” – Woody Allen
“I want to put a ding in the universe.” – Steve Jobs
“Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.” – Tom Freston
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
“Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat.” – Steve Jobs
“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.” – Peter F. Drucker
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” – Thomas Edison
“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.” – David Ogilvy
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things.” – Steve Jobs
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.” – Oscar Wilde
“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.” – Albert Einstein
“Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.” – Nnamdi Azikiwe
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.” – Peter F. Drucker
“Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” – Dr. Albert Szent-Györgyi
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.” – Bill Gates
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” – John Maynard Keynes
“There’s a way to do it better – find it.” – Thomas Edison
“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” – Pablo Picasso
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” – Rob Siltanen
“Success can cause people to unlearn the habits that made them successful in the first place.” – Satya Nadella
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” – Steve Jobs
“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.” – Linus Pauling
“Innovation is the calling card of the future.” – Anna Eshoo
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
“Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.” – Michael Porter
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” – Marie Curie
“Dreamers are mocked as impractical. The truth is they are the most practical, as their innovations lead to progress and a better way of life for all of us.” – Robin S. Sharma
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” – Albert Szent-Györgyi
“Experimentation is the key to innovation.” – James Dyson
“Innovation is the outcome of a habit, not a random act.” – Sukant Ratnakar
“Without change, there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement.” – William Pollard
“Some people see innovation as change, but we have never really seen it like that. It’s making things better.” – Tim Cook
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.” – Dean Kamen
“Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” – Madam C.J. Walker
“Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying no to all but the most crucial features.” – Steve Jobs
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures; learn from them and start again.” – Richard Branson
“The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.” – Bob Iger
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” – Henry Ford
“Innovation is the only way to win.” – Steve Jobs
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
“Nothing is stronger than habit, yet nothing is more overlooked in the pursuit of innovation.” – Leo Tolstoy
“An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something they’re already doing in their lives done better.” – Clayton Christensen
“Curiosity about life in all its aspects is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett
“Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking, we can get on with creating the future.” – James Bertrand
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” – Thomas Edison
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
“Don’t be afraid to innovate; be afraid not to.” – Anonymous
“Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.” – Hyman Rickover
“Innovation and imagination are the driving forces of the future.” – Anonymous
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” – Albert Einstein
“Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.” – Jeff Bezos
“Life is about trying things to see if they work.” – Ray Bradbury
“Innovation is about moving forward, sometimes into the unknown.” – Anonymous
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” – Jonathan Swift
“Success is doing ordinary things in extraordinary ways.” – Jim Rohn
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein
“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” – Howard Schultz
“Innovation needs freedom. Freedom to experiment, fail, and learn.” – Anonymous
“You don’t think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.” – George Nelson
“Innovation starts with a challenge to the status quo.” – Anonymous
“The best innovations are simple solutions to complex problems.” – Anonymous
“Change is the end result of all true learning.” – Leo Buscaglia
“Innovation distinguishes between surviving and thriving.” – Anonymous
“Originality thrives in seclusion, free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind.” – Nikola Tesla
“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.” – Scott Belsky
“Keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things. Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” – Walt Disney
“Innovation is powered by intelligence and guided by purpose.” – Anonymous
“Dream big, start small, but most of all, start.” – Simon Sinek
“Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.” – Ludwig von Mises
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations.” – Steve Jobs
“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.” – Peter F. Drucker
“Disruption is not about what happens to you; it’s about how you respond to what happens to you.” – Jay Samit
“Innovation doesn’t happen by chance. It happens by making the choice to think differently.” – Anonymous
“Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.” – Buddha
“Innovation and creativity are like muscles: the more you use them, the stronger they grow.” – Anonymous
“Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is not innovation; it’s insanity.” – Albert Einstein
“Real innovation happens when people stop complaining and start creating.” – Anonymous
“Innovation requires taking risks, and sometimes that means being misunderstood for long periods.” – Jeff Bezos
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” – Steve Jobs
“Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought.” – Albert Einstein
“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.” – Charles Kettering
