Best 1466 quotes in «innovation quotes» category

Ideas are the currency of innovation.

I don't like museums, I like labs.

I faced people from all walks of business who fully disregarded design (though they were completely influenced by it). I also met fine artists who drowned in their own work and the dense creative universe in their minds. Then I met designers. And instantly fell in love. Let me tell you why. Designers are familiar with critiques. They not only tolerate them but actively look out for them. They honestly believe in iterations and learn to edit down their work. They embrace simplicity and create beauty based on requirements other than their own. Design education teaches you to run away from assumptions and to have the stomach to scrap your work often. I’m bringing this up because it’s time to bridge the gap between design and business.

If an innovation doesn't solve a problem, it's an innovation that you can live without.

If being smart can improve the quality of lives, then choose to be and be smart.” - Auntabelle, Amazon Lee and the Ancient Undead of Rome by Kira G. and Kailin Gow

If Da Vinci had to tweet 5 times a day, we’d still be riding bicycles.

If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school.

If humans can live for 100 years, why do companies die so young.

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

If leaders don’t change. Change the leaders,

If records refuse to be broken, shatter them.

If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn't have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted.

If only 1 out of 10 businesses succeeds, start 10 businesses. Just sayin.

If there is no culture then, any culture is our culture.

If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.

If the successor does better than the ancestor world remembers the successor, like the maker of a car, is still remembered but not the maker of a bullock cart.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.

If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.

If we want to avert an impending calamity and a state of things which may transform this globe into an inferno, we should push the development of flying machines and wireless transmission of energy without an instant’s delay and with all the power and resources of the nation.

IF we don't start to rethink how we are acting now...We will pay the price later for our "old-stinking-thinking" style

If you are committed to your highest potential, existence will support you with new energies.

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

If you are not innovating, you are deteriorating.

If you are someone who dislikes, condemns and rejects new ideas, you aren’t fit to lead.

If you continue doing what you have done in the past, you will get what you have received in the past.

If you are not prepared to take risks, make mistakes, feel your fear and take a bold step forward anyway…you’ll never come up with anything original.

If you're in business, all the content in the world will do you no good unless it leads to a sale.

...if your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale’s head for an afternoon.

If you have time to write a business plan, you have time to prove the model. Just sayin.

If you knew all about it, it wouldn't be the leading edge.

If you know one thing very well and the rest only superficially, that one thing will always appear to be more 'unique.

If you must walk in someone's shadow make sure it's your own

If you net a profit, reward the "producers." Allocate a portion to innovation & future growth. Place a portion in cash reserves to weather storms.

If your brand is a cliché, your brand is losing sales and growth. Why? If your brand is using clichés to promote itself, you’re promoting your “category,” not your unique, individual brand. Painful? Yes. Solvable? Absolutely.

If you’re struggling to “think outside the box” remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?

If you’ve created a work culture where vulnerability isn’t okay, you’ve also created a culture where innovation and creativity aren’t okay.

If you want innovation, growth, and culture, invest in people, not technology. Technology can't lead, love, or connect.

If you want to be trusted, trust first. Make decisions that are grounded in your authentic principles. Don’t lie. Don’t cheat. Don’t push others down to obtain success.

If your thoughts can change your actions, then your actions can change your thoughts.

If you think it's funny to make fun of the "used car salesman," you better only buy new and never sell your car. Just sayin.

I HAD SAID BEFORE THAT THE PAST MAKE US WHO WE ARE, OUR BIGGEST ERRING WILL BE MAKING IT OUR BURDEN.

I’m a firm a believer in the power of free enterprise to move the world forward. All that Soviet respect for science was no match for the American innovation machine once unleashed. The problem comes when the government is inhibiting innovation with overregulation and short-sighted policy. Trade wars and restrictive immigration regulations will limit America’s ability to attract the best and brightest minds, minds needed for this and every forthcoming Sputnik moment.

Impossible is a perception based upon a limiting mental illusion. Possible is the belief in the potential of unseen possibility,

I'm convinced that the best solutions are often the ones that are counterintuitive - that challenge conventional thinking - and end in breakthroughs. It is always easier to do things the same old way...why change? To fight this, keep your dissatisfaction index high and break with tradition. Don't be too quick to accept the way things are being done. Question whether there's a better way. Very often you will find that once you make this break from the usual way - and incidentally, this is probably the hardest thing to do—and start on a new track your horizon of new thoughts immediately broadens. New ideas flow in like water. Always keep your interests broad - don't let your mind be stunted by a limited view.

Improvement is not enough, you also need innovation.

Improvement is not enough, you also needs innovation.

In 35 years, 50 percent of our population will live in our cities. Most other countries will be in a similar situation. We need to start preparing now to ensure everyone has the opportunity to live meaningful lives, and our cities are places that will allow that to happen.

Imagination is a sacred intuition.

I'm trying to ruin it!" Will had bellowed back. "So I can figure out how to do it perfectly! How can you learn anything if you won't take risks?

In a world full of game players, the only way to set yourself apart is to be a game changer.