Top 84 Entrepreneur Innovation Quotes
#1. Innovation: Imagine the future and fill in the gaps.
Brian Halligan
#2. How much value do you want to get out of life? You get out what you put in.
Approach your life with intent, courage, faith and hard work, and you'll reap the beautiful value those sacrifices provide. That's the way our strange world works.
Richie Norton
#3. It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSIT. Don't wait. Just ship.
Richie Norton
#4. What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story.
Richie Norton
#5. We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.
Ryan Lilly
#6. If you want control, loosen your grip. You're strangling your employees. Letting go is actually holding on.
Richie Norton
#7. To make money you have to use a four letter word: SELL.
Richie Norton
#8. To travel is to live. Breathe some life into your life and go outside!
Richie Norton
#9. When haters start to rear their ugly head, just play around with them and throw them a bone so they can go away and chew on it.
Richie Norton
#10. When you travel, somehow, the world gets both bigger and smaller, simultaneously.
Richie Norton
#11. 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
#12. More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.
Seth Godin
#13. Some people just love to stir the pot, but don't realize they're cooking themselves.
Richie Norton
#14. Building a family is an entrepreneurial experience.
Richie Norton
#15. If you have time to write a business plan, you have time to prove the model. Just sayin.
Richie Norton
#16. Have the STRENGTH to say "no" to the status quo.
Have the WILL to listen to the deepest desires of your heart.
Have the COURAGE to ACT on and live out your intent.
Richie Norton
#17. Disruptive innovation is entrepreneurs changing their industry with unique creativity.
Onyi Anyado
#18. An entrepreneur is a leader of excellence, trailblazer and pioneer who constantly brings change to their generation.
Onyi Anyado
#19. Sometimes I work so long and so hard that I have no idea what day or time it is. I forget to eat. I don't get ready for the day. I fall asleep on the couch and wake up and get back to work.
Richie Norton
#20. You can disagree with an idea without attacking the person who shared it.
Richie Norton
#21. Wantrepreneur: "I'll do it later."
Entrepreneur: Today IS later.
Richie Norton
#22. Unlike other product developers, Jobs did not believe the customer was always right; if they wanted to resist using a mouse, they were wrong.
Walter Isaacson
#24. Entrepreneur, if you're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind".
Onyi Anyado
#25. Unless your message is that you have no message, you need a message.
Richie Norton
#27. Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER.
Richie Norton
#28. The origin of innovation and entrepreneurship is a creative mindset
Michael Harris
#29. In business the 80/20 principle is behind any innovation, any extra value. It is an entrepreneurial principle, a formula for value creation utilized not only by entrepreneurs, but by most managers and organizations.
Richard Koch
#30. Creativity is the new currency, so, are you credited with new thoughts or overdrawn in old thinking?
Onyi Anyado
#31. Just because you work, doesn't mean you're working on the right thing.
Richie Norton
#32. 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.
Richie Norton
#33. How much longer will you wait until you take a chance on yourself?
Richie Norton
#34. Live in a way that helps you lean into your fears, make a difference and live without regret.
Richie Norton
#35. If only 1 out of 10 businesses succeeds, start 10 businesses. Just sayin.
Richie Norton
#36. Some entrepreneurs have a bad habit of taking personal credit for all improvements and innovations at their startups. If you penalize or ignore employee initiatives, you can be certain that they won't be repeated, and motivation for more conventional performance will suffer.
Martin Zwilling
#37. Give your idea a chance. You'll never hit a home run (or a base hit for that matter) if you don't swing.
Richie Norton
#39. Are you Mindful or Mindless? Or in the Middle?
Richie Norton
#40. You may forget the toys you buy and break, but you'll always remember the experiences and memories you create.
Richie Norton
#41. Note to businesspersons and salespersons: "Be professional" does not mean "be a robot." Just be friendly and act like a real person. Cool?
Richie Norton
#43. Follow your passion and learn how to make money at it. Or don't follow your passion and learn to make money at that. They are the same. It's a choice.
Richie Norton
#44. A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation
Brian Chesky
#45. Every post is a digital tattoo of your personal brand.
Every post you make is a marketing piece.
Whether you realize it or not and regardless of having something for sale.
Every post is a digital tattoo of your personal brand.
Richie Norton
#46. Better to teach a man to fish who already loves to fish.
Richie Norton
#47. Don't disregard your so-called "stupid ideas." They may be inspired thoughts and high-potential opportunities. Whatcha gonna do?
Richie Norton
#48. When someone says you can't do something because of XYZ, is that true? Or are they playing with your life with their good intentions to keep you safe?
Richie Norton
#50. Forest rangers see the forest differently. Likewise, entrepreneurs see the world differently.
Richie Norton
#51. Beware: If you egg people on, you'll get egg on your face.
Richie Norton
#52. At the end of the day, if you have a great product and service paired with the wrong pricing strategy / business model, you don't have a business.
Richie Norton
#53. You can't judge a man by the way he reacts when things go right, but by the way he reacts when things go wrong.
Richie Norton
#54. People LOVE change (when it's about changing others). People HATE change (when it's about changing themselves).
Richie Norton
#55. Success steps: Think big. Act small. Then scale.
Failure steps: Act big. Think small. Then shrink.
Consider your next big thing a project. Get one. Get it right. No sense growing a broken system.
Richie Norton
#56. If you're in business, all the content in the world will do you no good unless it leads to a sale.
Richie Norton
#57. The Great Wall of Facebook:
Having just visited the Great Wall of China, I'm thinking about the walls we build on FB. They are real. They keep people in and others out.
Build your wall carefully by answering this question:
What are you building your wall around?
Richie Norton
#58. Entrepreneurship is the engine fuelling innovation, employment generation and economic growth. Only by creating an environment where entrepreneur- ship can prosper and where entrepreneurs can try new ideas and empower others can we ensure that many of the world's issues will not go unaddressed.
Klaus Schwab
#59. Another year older, but am I wiser? Wisdom comes from learning and changing for the better. Sometimes we just go through life living the same day over and over and never gaining true wisdom. Let that never be me.
Richie Norton
#60. Every day you're not doing that thing you want to do (your dream), you're spending mental currency, your dream currency (time) on the wrong thing.
Richie Norton
#61. Dear Influencers: Trolls will lurk under the bridges you build to gobble you up. They are hangry for attention. Build bridges anyways.
Richie Norton
#62. The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die.
Richie Norton
#63. What are you will to sacrifice for success? Whatever it is, don't sacrifice your values, your morals, your principles. Not worth it.
Richie Norton
#64. People who say "it's just business" are lying. It's a deceptive and manipulative tactic used by weak minds. Anyone who has ever run or been in business knows that a business will fail if the relationships are not healthy. Business is the business of relationships. That is all.
Richie Norton
#66. My parents did a great job of creating a home we wanted to return to...and all of our friends wanted to be there too.
Richie Norton
#67. Are you setting business goals? Try this:
Step 1: Add a "0" to your revenue goal.
Step 2: Take away a "0" from your expense goal.
Step 3: Let your mind go to work.
Thank me later.
Richie Norton
#68. You can't expect the level of excitement of your audience to be greater than your own.
Richie Norton
#69. Steve Jobs was an iconic entrepreneur and businessman whose impact on technology was felt beyond Silicon Valley. He will be remembered for the innovation he brought to market and the inspiration he brought to the world.
Meg Whitman
#70. No one knows your inner battle. No one knows the challenge you face. No one knows the sacrifice it takes to do what you do. But you're not alone.
Richie Norton
#71. I believe in solving social ills with business skills.
Richie Norton
#72. Jack of all trades or master of one? If you're a master of one, you'll soon be a master of none. Times are a changin. Be a jack of all trades. Or better, master of many!
Richie Norton
#73. Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction.
Richie Norton
#74. Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking for inspiration.
Harvey MacKay
#75. Everyone has an idea. But it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea.
Jack Dorsey
#76. The moment you think you can do something that you previously thought you couldn't, you can.
Richie Norton
#77. The way to be irreplaceable is to become a social innovator. Start projects that motivate you to save the world and simultaneously make you money (and create mindshare) for your company. Social innovation makes magic happen.
Richie Norton
#78. Gut check. Is your current fear a stumbling block or a stepping stone?
Richie Norton
#79. Everyone loves the idea of "disruption" in business, but no one likes it when it happens to them.
Richie Norton
#80. Life isn't about having, it's about experiencing.
Richie Norton
#81. To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective.
Richie Norton
#82. Be a learning machine. What made you money last year, won't necessarily make you money this and next year.
Richie Norton
#83. Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, "I could do that" ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story.
Richie Norton
#84. Happiness being surrounded by good friends and family at a BBQ.
Richie Norton
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