Top 100 Change Innovation Quotes
#1. We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.
Barbara Jordan
#2. Fighting Climate Change calls for innovation, cooperation and will power to make the changes that the world needs.
Narendra Modi
#3. An entrepreneur is a leader of excellence, trailblazer and pioneer who constantly brings change to their generation.
Onyi Anyado
#4. Kaizen and innovation are the two major strategies people use to create change. Where innovation demands shocking and radical reform, all kaizen asks is that you take small, comfortable steps toward improvement.
Robert D. Maurer
#5. Throughout history, people with new ideas - who think differently and try to change things - have always been called troublemakers.
Richelle Mead
#6. A poor attitude does not do the body any favours. Smile and the world will smile back at you.
Maurice Duffy
#7. People who are driven by their values will overcome hurdles, difficulties, and obstacles in ways that people driven only by profit will never be able to
Simon S. Tam
#9. As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.
Max McKeown
#10. If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.
Max McKeown
#11. Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.
Theodore Levitt
#12. The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists.
Nelson Mandela
#13. 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
#14. The key is to embrace disruption and change early. Don't react to it decades later. You can't fight innovation.
Ryan Kavanaugh
#15. An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.
Dean Kamen
#16. Strategy has no value if your culture and leadership mindset are wrong
Tony Dovale
#17. The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.
Erik Hersman
#18. Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
Agnes Repplier
#19. Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.
Nouriel Roubini
#20. Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
William Pollard
#21. Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.
Russell Kirk
#22. People change, and so do their aspirations, and so should brands.
Laura Busche
#23. I like to think of innovation as upgrading your current self. This upgrade helps you to more effectively deal with changes happening around you and to be able to think in a more complex manner than before.
Daniel Willey
#26. Let's create positive change on this planet; With either: the hyper sophisticated tools we have, or the mobile device we are
Natasha Tsakos
#27. In the technology sector failure is often a precondition to future successes, while prosperity can be the beginning of the end. If the rise and fall of BlackBerry teaches us anything it is that the race for innovation has no finish line, and that winners and losers can change places in an instant.
Jacquie McNish
#28. Kaizen is like a hotbed that nurtures small and ongoing changes, while innovation is like magma that appears in abrupt eruptions from time to time
Masaaki Imai
#29. The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar ... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Aldous Huxley
#30. An Appreciative inquiry Conversation is the catalyst for strengths based innovation.
Tony Dovale
#31. The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less important than the creation of a general organizational aptitude for innovation.
John Seely Brown
#32. Philanthropists should find innovations that release the energies of people. Individuals don't want to be taken care of --they need to be given a chance to fulfill their own potential. (142)
Jacqueline Novogratz
#33. WHY has no value, if you cannot rethink resourcefulness in a limited context.
Tony Dovale
#34. The right mindset is the most powerful force we can use to positively change the world.
Tony Dovale
#35. Innovation is any change big or small that makes a difference.
Thomas Smith
#36. How to "change the world" in two words: S.T.A.R.T. N.O.W.
1. START - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust.
2. NOW - No Opportunity Wasted
Richie Norton
#37. It is vital that we are equipped with the humility to understand that changing the world and keeping innovation alive require that we change ourselves.
Whitney Johnson
#38. Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.
Malcolm Gladwell
#39. The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions!
Israelmore Ayivor
#40. Originality must compound with inheritance.
Harold Bloom
#41. Organizational maturity is not just about technical excellence or process efficiency, but also about business effectiveness, agility, innovation intelligence, and people-centricity.
Pearl Zhu
#42. The momentum of all those wheels are too great for one person's passionate will.
K. Melissa Kennedy
#43. The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.
Sandro Veronesi
#44. And it is change that always provides the opportunity for the new and different. Systematic innovation therefore consists in the purposeful and organized search for changes, and in the systematic analysis of the opportunities such changes might offer for economic or social innovation.
Peter F. Drucker
#45. Innovations are the magnificent elevators of a transformational life.
Debasish Mridha
#46. If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.
Max McKeown
#47. Innovation is the result of a process that brings radical ideas to create positive change
Natasha Tsakos
#48. With innovation and initiative we have the potential to change the world for the better.
Sameh Elsayed
#49. Like time-management, change-management, doesn't really exist antmore ... Today's most valuable mindset must include the SWIFTA framework the be a change-driver.
Tony Dovale
#50. Innovation is the change, Change Management needs to be an integral part of innovation management.
Pearl Zhu
#51. Innovation - the heart of technological change - is fundamentally a learning process.
Peter Dicken
#52. Being really good at 'learning how to learn,' as President Bill Brody of Johns Hopkins put it, will be an enormous asset in an era of rapid change and innovation, when new jobs will be phased in and old ones phased out faster than ever.
Thomas Friedman
#53. In this digital age with its speed of change, any brand that refuses to innovate will die
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#54. I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.
Bill Gates
#55. Technological change is never an isolated phenomenon. This revolution takes place inside a complex ecosystem which comprises business, governmental and societal dimensions. To make a country fit for the new type of innovation-driven competition, the whole ecosystem has to be considered.
Klaus Schwab
#56. In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
#57. The rate of change and innovation occurring across the entire spectrum of society demands that a company like XL utilize the highest level of analytics and information to solve problems for our clients.
Mike McGavick
#58. I am surprised at all the people in the high-tech industry focused on "making money" ... If that's all they want to do, they should have a $100 printing press in their basements and they will truly "make money." Instead, if we focus all that energy on innovation, we'll change the world for the best.
Philippe Kahn
#59. Creativity is an input to innovation and change is the output from innovation.
Braden Kelley
#60. Breakthrough innovation occurs when we bring down boundaries and encourage disciplines to learn from each other
Gyan Nagpal
#61. In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.
Mitt Romney
#63. Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it.
Guy Kawasaki
#64. All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention.
Joline Godfrey
#65. Innovation is significant positive change.
Scott Berkun
#66. Innovation is a man made change that we see with a sense of wonder.
Debasish Mridha
#67. Believe in better, which is a corporate phrase rather than a political phrase. We don't want more. We're not looking for quantity. We're looking for quality. Believe in better suggests intergenerational change. It suggests product innovation. It suggests something better for the future.
Frank Luntz
#68. Renewal is not just innovation and change. It is also the process of bringing the results of change into line with our purposes.
John W. Gardner
#69. It is human nature to resist change... but yet, it is human nature to be innovative. Humans are contradicitve based on the fact that innovation requires change.
Faith Tilley Johnson
#70. Thinking about it later he understood that a battle was a distillation of time: many years of preparation and decades of innovation and change were squeezed into a clash of very short duration. And when it was over the impact radiated backwards and forwards through time, determining the future
Amitav Ghosh
#71. Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
Brene Brown
#72. Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE)
Tony Dovale
#73. Innovative solutions to new challenges seldom come from familiar places
Gyan Nagpal
#74. Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.
Harold Bloom
#75. All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.
Max McKeown
#76. Hell is where time has stopped, where there's no more innovation. No horizon. No change. I sometimes think Hell would suit the British down to the ground, and that, given the chance, they'd vote for it.
Paul Cornell
#77. The real problem is that most people fear failure, and thus take no action. They really they should be fearful of their thoughts that cause their failure to take action!
Tony Dovale
#78. The hard part of ReThinking, is most people don't usually do much normal REAL thinking anyway. They live their lives on automatic reaction.
Tony Dovale
#80. Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world,
Brian Chesky
#81. More than anything else, technology will pave the way for innovative change at Starbucks. The bulk of Starbucks' innovation over the next several years will be technology-focused.
Howard Schultz
#82. The change in rhetoric has constituted a revolution in how people view themselves and how they view the middle class, the Bourgeois Revaluation. People have become tolerant of markets and innovation.
Deirdre N. McCloskey
#83. Knowing that an asteroid is going to hit the earth is not really useful if you are not planning to launch missiles to knock it out of the sky. You have to work massively overtime on the belief that innovation or massive change is going to happen.' - Tom Martin, former VP of marketing
Heather Simmons
#84. I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#85. We can see how the role of mobile has changed in past 20 years. It is a perfect example of how one innovation can change an entire era.
Narendra Modi
#86. Whether you see the world as emergent or, deteriorating. We have long known that some people favor innovation and look positively toward the future while others are frightened of change and want to halt innovation.
Michael Crichton
#87. Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
Plato
#88. People LOVE change (when it's about changing others). People HATE change (when it's about changing themselves).
Richie Norton
#89. Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation.
Bonnie Marcus
#90. IF we don't start to rethink how we are acting now ... We will pay the price later for our "old-stinking-thinking" style
Tony Dovale
#91. When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
Cameron Sinclair
#92. Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.
David Ogilvy
#93. Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.
Heather Simmons
#94. Dreaming is one of humanity's greatest gifts - it champions aspiration, spurs innovation, leads to change, and propels the world forward.
Richard Branson
#95. Because there was no pre-existing patrician elite, those successful in the new book industry could write very swiftly to the top of the social hierarchy.
Andrew Pettegree
#96. When rate of problems is greater than rate of solutions, only radical changes can make the difference.
Sukant Ratnakar
#97. If you want real, significant, sustainable change, you need talented, committed local line leaders. If the line manager is not innovating, then innovation is not going to occur.
Peter Senge
#98. Your thoughts can change your actions and your actions can change your thoughts.
Sukant Ratnakar
#99. Japan will change. Let's create a country where innovation is constantly happening, giving birth to new industries to lead the world, when I visit Silicon Valley I want to think about how we can take Silicon Valley's ways and make them work in Japan.
Shinzo Abe
#100. Innovation is key. Only those who have the agility to change with the market and innovate quickly will survive.
Robert Kiyosaki
