Top 100 Innovate Quotes
#1. Entrepreneurs' willingness to innovate or just to invest - and thus create new jobs - is driven by their 'animal spirits,' as they decide whether to leap into the void.
Edmund Phelps
#2. Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.
Pierre Trudeau
#3. When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.
Marissa Mayer
#5. We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
Jeff Bezos
#6. My view is there's no bad time to innovate.
Jeff Bezos
#9. The moral is that it is necssary to innovate, to predict the needs of the customers, and give him more. He that innovates and is lucky will take the market.
W. Edwards Deming
#10. To innovate does not necessarily mean to expand; very often it means to simplify.
M. Russell Ballard
#11. Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#12. A man liberated from monarchical or hereditary limitations stood a greater chance of possessing a mind free to roam and to grow and to create and to innovate in a climate in which citizens lived together in essential harmony and affection.87 This was Jefferson's ideal republic - and he was
Jon Meacham
#13. Entrepreneurs innovate. Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship.
Peter F. Drucker
#14. Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.
Beth Comstock
#15. In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.
Muhammad Yunus
#16. Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.
Nolan Bushnell
#17. When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new industries and that becomes part of your culture, your jobs can't go overseas because no one else has figured out how to do it yet.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#18. Those that innovate the future understand history the best.
Rick Warren
#19. Every revolution is a revolution of ideas-yet to innovate is not reform.
Rosalind Miles
#20. Guitar Hero has been so successful that a lot of people were questioning how it was possible to innovate on the most successful franchise of its kind.
Dan Rosensweig
#21. Low-wage jobs have gone offshore. We need to innovate to stay competitive.
Jeanne Shaheen
#22. Speaking as just simply an American who cares about the economic health of our country, I see one of the surest ways to bring wealth and prosperity to the country is to innovate in science and technology.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#23. The fact is that you are never too old to innovate.
Vivek Wadhwa
#24. By choosing to innovate instead of compete, Apple successfully captured a leadership share of a very competitive market.
Josh Kaufman
#25. Most innovations fail. And companies that don't innovate die.
Henry Chesbrough
#26. Innovate, integrate, innovate, integrate, that's the way the industry works, ... Graphics was a stand-alone graphics card; then it's going to be a stand-alone graphics chip; and then part of that's going to get integrated into the main CPU.
Craig R. Barrett
#27. As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
Kara Swisher
#28. If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.
Nolan Bushnell
#29. In social, you have to innovate in information. If you have the same thing as everyone else, you're just not interesting.
Dave Morin
#30. The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.
Ned Rorem
#31. If we are going to out-innovate, out-compete, out-educate other countries, it's going to be women who make a difference, it's women who are going to lead the way and you know, until women get that rightful place and decision making and leadership and growth, America won't realize all her potential.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#32. The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.
Alex Tabarrok
#33. Management and entrepreneurship are only two different dimensions of the same task. An entrepreneur who does not learn how to manage will not last long. A management that does not learn to innovate will not last long.
Peter Drucker
#34. Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. Our religion should not be a shield behind which we hide from the world but a driving force that inspires us to innovate and contribute to our surroundings. This is the true spirit of Islam.
Basmah Bint Saud
#35. Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ... a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?
Abraham Maslow
#36. We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough ... we're only paid for breakthroughs.
Bill Gates
#37. Institutions too often focus their energy preserving the problem to which they are a solution than to innovate their way to success.
Josh Linkner
#38. In the camera business, you won't survive if you don't innovate. In the guitar business you may or may not. The guitars being sold were designed between '48 and '59, Gibson SGs in '61.
Paul Reed Smith
#39. When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
Larry Ellison
#40. You can't rest on your laurels. You have to continue to innovate; you have to continue to be different.
Keith Belling
#41. Is now composed of older, larger companies. And old, big companies do not start new businesses, innovate in profound disruptive ways, or create jobs.
Brink Lindsey
#42. Be creative. Innovate consistently on the little things that the big companies ignore. Little things often make big differences in business.
Richard Branson
#43. The prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington.
Arnold Kling
#45. It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.
Kevin Plank
#47. Corporations today, by their razor sharp focus on the 'bottom line' and quarterly earnings, have lost their ability to innovate.
John Maeda
#48. If we're honest with ourselves, our user experience hadn't kept up with the competition. In the first ten years eBay created the market. Now we're positioning ourselves to innovate off our core platform. This is not a project. We're never done.
John Donahoe
#49. Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.
Geoff Mulgan
#50. It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design.
John Romero
#51. You can't really innovate for the past (your offering won't be innovative and will be beaten easily by competitors). If you innovate for the future, then adoption will be slow until customers become ready. The trick is to task your insights team to provide guidance for the future present.
Braden Kelley
#52. What I know is that we no longer have free enterprise capitalism in health care; it's not a system any longer where people are able to innovate. It's not based on voluntary exchange. The government is directing it.
John Mackey
#53. Our ancestors have invented, we can at least innovate.
Amit Kalantri
#54. This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.
Seth Godin
#55. Employers say they want people who can think creatively, who can innovate, who can communicate well, work in teams and are adaptable and self-confident.
Ken Robinson
#56. We're cautious. We'd rather exceed expectations than miss but I think it's going to be a continued difficult economy. Apple is trying a different way to navigate out of this, we're trying to innovate.
Steve Jobs
#57. No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.
Seth Godin
#59. High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.
Andy Hargreaves
#60. We recognised from the start that we couldn't just stay in the U.K. and Ireland markets. We have always looked to the products of the future. I've always said, 'If you don't innovate, you'll evaporate.'
Martin Naughton
#61. One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long.
Vince Lombardi
#62. Our policy is to encourage investment and promote freedom for industry to innovate.
Viviane Reding
#63. I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.
Daniel Clowes
#64. Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.
David Packer
#65. Continuous productivity manifests itself as an environment where the evolving tools and culture make it possible to innovate more and faster than ever, with significantly improved execution.
Steven Sinofsky
#66. Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
Gary Hamel
#67. When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around.
Jeb Bush
#69. You young people yourselves are capable of performing anything. Our inventors can invent in a high level, Our innovators can innovate in a high level, only if they keep self confidence and believe that we can.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#70. Kenya's M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf.
Bill Gates
#71. To innovate, you must learn to fail well. Learn from your mistakes:
Eric Schmidt
#72. A good officer was one who accepted orders and fulfilled them, even when he disagreed. But the mark of a great officer was that he also tried to innovate and offer appropriate suggestions.
Brandon Sanderson
#73. It's the unbridled passion and the fearlessness to just go into something with reckless abandon that allows you to create something from nothing. That allows you to innovate. That allows you to take things to the extreme.
Paul Heyman
#74. where creativity doesn't drive a company's strategic vision, most often the lowest price will be the winning formula. Success, abundance, a rising standard of living-for individuals, companies, communities, nations-will depend on a capacity to create, invent, and innovate.
Peter Georgescu
#75. Being superficially different is the goal of so many of the products we see ... rather than trying to innovate and genuinely taking the time, investing the resources and caring enough to try and make something better.
Jonathan Ive
#76. Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.
Adeo Ressi
#77. Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!
Peter Drucker
#78. In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.
Michael Nutter
#79. The degree to which the opportunity to use power effectively is granted to or withheld from individuals is one operative difference between those companies which stagnate and those which innovate.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#80. Human beings innovate by combining and recombining ideas, and the larger and denser the network, the more innovation occurs. Once again, notice that this is not policy.
Matt Ridley
#81. A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage.
Guy Kawasaki
#82. In digital, you may have your big launch, but then you continue to work, and you continue to innovate and continue to enhance your platforms as you go along.
Alison Moore
#83. Tough is to innovate; else you are just competing with photocopy machines.
Vikrmn
#84. Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology.
William H. Calvin
#85. What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
Edmund Phelps
#86. Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.
Tim Brown
#87. Both humanity's capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.
Ben Bernanke
#89. The large organization has to learn to innovate, or it won't survive.
Peter Drucker
#90. Our Government is committed to supporting Canadian businesses as they grow, innovate and generate high-value jobs - in the West and across the country. The WINN Initiative assists western Canadian businesses in bringing innovative ideas from the test bench to the marketplace.
Michelle Rempel
#91. 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
#92. Money can merely buy/acquire/get you what is already available. Without it one has an unlimited opportunity to innovate and create anything,
Nikhil Sharda
#93. The core value that differentiates Apple is our ability to innovate.
Ron Johnson
#94. It is the people who innovate that inspire, and innovation is not born of the status quo.
Michele Jennae
#95. The idea is to take it a step forward and innovate. Or else why am I doing it? I don't want to be just another can in the assembly line. I want to create - do something that is totally different and unusual.
Michael Jackson
#96. I haven't come to tell you I've got juice
I just produce, create, innovate on a higher level
KRS-One
#97. The hope for our nation and our world lies within our ability to innovate and move forward technologically.
James Rollins
#98. Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future.
Robert Reich
#99. The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is vital for their future.
John Harvey-Jones
#100. I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
Sam Walton
