Top 100 Innovation Success Quotes
#1. All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.
Max McKeown
#3. Impossible is a perception based upon a limiting mental illusion. Possible is the belief in the potential of unseen possibility,
Tony Dovale
#4. 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
#5. 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
#7. Appreciation and recognition are qualities that most leaders forget, but desperately need, to build a positive, passionate and engaged workplace.
Tony Dovale
#8. Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
Baba Kalyani
#9. I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam Smith and the whole Enlightenment. It essentially made the merchant class free instead of controlled by the king and aristocracy. That was essential.
James D. Watson
#10. 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
#11. If you're in business, all the content in the world will do you no good unless it leads to a sale.
Richie Norton
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. So it comes down to scarcity, one product or service having qualities you won't find everywhere or ideally, anywhere. It's the job of every brand to seek that out as their standard, their stamp.
David Brier
#15. It is the satisfaction of doing it for yourself and motivating others to work with you in bringing it about. It is about the fun, innovation, creativity with the rewards being far greater than purely financial.
Richard Branson
#16. I've always valued and encouraged teamwork, and that collaborative spirit of we versus I is core to Intuit's success. Innovation has been part of Intuit's DNA for nearly 30 years.
Brad D. Smith
#17. Beware: If you egg people on, you'll get egg on your face.
Richie Norton
#18. A Culture of clear consistent communication and connection is the foundation of a high performance team that thrives and flourishes.
Tony Dovale
#19. Forest rangers see the forest differently. Likewise, entrepreneurs see the world differently.
Richie Norton
#21. When it comes to branding and the ever-changing social media phenomenon, you're not a mushroom. In other words, you shouldn't be kept in the dark and fed a pile of...well, you get the idea.
David Brier
#22. Courage is the belief in self, and the possible ability to prevail in the face of adversity.
Tony Dovale
#24. Great things often come from actions and decisions taken by others, that are deemed wild, stupid or unreasonable at the time, but later prove to be very useful.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#25. People who are driven by love will overcome hardships and hurdles in ways that people who are only driven by profit never can.
Simon S. Tam
#26. Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!
Indra Nooyi
#27. Consumers today have become a cynical mob of buyers who believe the reviews and ratings of complete strangers much more readily than your brand's promises and distinctions.
David Brier
#28. Every great brand goes back to a courageous individual who dared to say 'NO' to the status quo.
David Brier
#29. 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
#30. REAL Leadership is the building of belief, that activates and aligns the full potential, for a meaningful cause
Tony Dovale
#31. And while a brand is so much more than a company's logo, the logo is one of the key ambassadors to any brand.
David Brier
#32. The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
Harold S. Geneen
#33. The worst question ever asked, is the one which is never asked.
Krishna Saagar
#34. Be a learning machine. What made you money last year, won't necessarily make you money this and next year.
Richie Norton
#35. 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
#36. To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective.
Richie Norton
#37. Colleagues should take care of each other, have fun, celebrate success, learn by failure, look for reasons to praise not to criticize, communicate freely and respect each other.
Richard Branson
#38. Gut check. Is your current fear a stumbling block or a stepping stone?
Richie Norton
#39. 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
#40. The moment you think you can do something that you previously thought you couldn't, you can.
Richie Norton
#41. Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.
Naveen Jain
#42. Bad Culture is the contaminated oxygen your staff breath, as they get indoctrinated by your limiting context.
Tony Dovale
#43. You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success.
Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.
Steven Moffat
#44. 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
#45. Once an innovation reaches a certain level of popularity, its success is virtually assured. By the same token, great innovations can fail because the domino effect doesn't kick in.15
Michael J. Mauboussin
#46. Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction.
Richie Norton
#47. If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.
Seth Godin
#48. Success or failure is not a one day event, but continuous life process. Each day you succeed and each day you fail with life, and most of the time, success follows the failure.
Roshan Sharma
#49. I believe in solving social ills with business skills.
Richie Norton
#50. Never fight any progressive moves unless you can move faster to achieve something different.
Ferdinard S. Lawson
#51. 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
#52. You can't expect the level of excitement of your audience to be greater than your own.
Richie Norton
#53. 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
#55. The act of trying to guarantee the success of an innovation is almost certain to make it less likely that it will succeed.
Seth Godin
#56. How much longer will you wait until you take a chance on yourself?
Richie Norton
#57. Wantrepreneur: "I'll do it later."
Entrepreneur: Today IS later.
Richie Norton
#58. Who are we, and how do we relate this idea in a way that's meaningful to our customers and the values they hold dear?
In other words, one must define something meaningful. To do that, one must identify to whom this must be meaningful.
David Brier
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. The recipe for success is a tried and true one here in Rhode Island - innovation, reform, public service.
Donald L. Carcieri
#62. History is filled with inferior brands outselling superior ones thanks to better branding. Only superior branding has the power to overcome and reverse this (and superior products and services deserve superior branding).
David Brier
#64. Until Africa changes it's Mindset - It will forever be a "basket case" looking for international support, funding and charity.
We need to Rethink Innovation
Tony Dovale
#65. 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
#66. IT has to provide both business and technological insight into how they bring success to the company as a whole transparently, holistically, and continually.
Pearl Zhu
#68. Building a family is an entrepreneurial experience.
Richie Norton
#69. Some people just love to stir the pot, but don't realize they're cooking themselves.
Richie Norton
#70. Come out of the don'ts and impossibles. Manifest your dream. Bloom your worth.
Amit Ray
#71. To go from Bitter to BETTER, means you need to turn your I onto an E, by embracing WE.
Tony Dovale
#72. The right mindset is the most powerful force we can use to positively change the world.
Tony Dovale
#73. To travel is to live. Breathe some life into your life and go outside!
Richie Norton
#74. Brand growth and dominance is created by having the highest brand value, not the lowest price tag.
David Brier
#75. What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story.
Richie Norton
#76. History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success.
Scott Berkun
#77. It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSIT. Don't wait. Just ship.
Richie Norton
#78. A High Performance team requires people with High Performance Mindsets, with relevant competence, committed and balanced communication, to a meaningful and challenging goal.
Tony Dovale
#79. Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.
Eric Schmidt
#80. Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.
Tom Peters
#81. 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
#82. You may forget the toys you buy and break, but you'll always remember the experiences and memories you create.
Richie Norton
#83. Are you Mindful or Mindless? Or in the Middle?
Richie Norton
#84. The biggest mistake brands make are trying to "sell their stuff" rather than clarifying what people are actually buying.
David Brier
#86. Things like WhatsApp are a great example of success that others have had on Android, which we see as welcome innovation on the platform.
Sundar Pichai
#87. Your habit of avoiding mental and emotional discomfort is your #1 reason for your being stuck where you are in life.
Tony Dovale
#88. If only 1 out of 10 businesses succeeds, start 10 businesses. Just sayin.
Richie Norton
#89. Live in a way that helps you lean into your fears, make a difference and live without regret.
Richie Norton
#90. The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success.
Richie Norton
#91. 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
#92. Just because you work, doesn't mean you're working on the right thing.
Richie Norton
#93. It becomes a question of 'How do we convey our differentiation instantaneously?' and drive a wedge between any apparent (or assumed) sameness in the marketplace.
David Brier
#94. The origin of innovation and entrepreneurship is a creative mindset
Michael Harris
#95. 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
#96. We've all seen it. A #startup begins with a #dream, a #passion to do something others have missed or overlooked.
David Brier
#97. The opposite of value is a commodity item with little or no perceived value - which means people are not seeking it out and when they do, it's merely one of the many choices (so very likely the cheapest offering will get the sale).
David Brier
#98. Exponential Results Requires Exponential Thinking and High Performance Teamworking with Growth Oriented Mindsets.
Tony Dovale
#99. Unless your message is that you have no message, you need a message.
Richie Norton
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