Innovation Quotes from CEOs, Presidents, Authors and other great minds.

Great collection of innovation quotes from top minds. If a company isn’t innovating then it is dying. Here are a couple of quotes that say it well. “All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s.” ~ Jeff Bezos. “The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present the decline will be fast.” ~ Peter Drucker

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” ~ Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
“There’s always an element of chance and you must be willing to live with that element. If you insist on certainty, you will paralyze yourself.” ~ J.P. Getty

“It always seems impossible until it is done.” ~ Nelson Mandela

“There’s a way to do it better—find it.” ~ Thomas Edison
“I want to put a ding in the universe.” ~ Steve Jobs

“Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let’s all go exploring.” ~ Edith Widder

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
“No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered.” ~ Winston Churchill

“We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.” ~ Thomas Edison

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” ~ Walt Disney
“Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.” ~ Michael Porter

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” ~ Wayne Gretzky

“Capital isn’t so important in business. Experience isn’t so important. You can get both these things. What is important is ideas. If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn’t any limit to what you can do with your business and your life.” ~ Harvey Firestone
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” ~ John Steinbeck

“Be an innovator, not an imitator.” ~ Audrey Carballo

“Innovation comes from saying NO to 1,000 things.” ~ Steve Jobs
“Innovation is the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.” ~ Peter Drucker
“There is an innovator inside of all of us.” ~ Rowan Gibson

“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” ~ Maya Angelou

“I am looking for a lot of people who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.” ~ Henry Ford
“You can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level.” ~ Albert Einstein

“The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.” ~ Bob Iger

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” ~ Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox
“An inventor is simply a person who doesn’t take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates from college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he’s in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.” ~ Charles Kettering

“The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.” ~ Thomas Edison

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” ~ Helen Keller, one of the best innovation quotes
“What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.” ~ Simon Sinek

“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

“If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.” ~ Charles Kettering
“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.” ~ Lee Iacocca

“Remember, a dead fish can float down a stream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.” ~ W.C. Fields
“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.” ~ Thomas Edison
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” ~ Goethe

“Some men look at things the way they are and ask why? I dream of things that are not and ask why not?” ~ Robert Kennedy

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” ~ Steve Jobs
“Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.” ~ Peter Drucker

“I have been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been.” ~ Sam Walton

“There’s no good idea that cannot be improved on.” ~ Michael Eisner
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” ~ Alan Kay

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” ~ General George Patton

“We have a strategic plan, it’s called doing things.” ~ Herb Kelleher
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try.” ~ Dr. Seuss