Innovation Quotes

“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

“There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.”

Brené Brown

“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.”

Woody Allen

“Failure and invention are inseparable twins.”

Jeff Bezos

“This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.”

Joseph Schumpeter

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”

Alan Kay

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”

Arthur C. Clarke

“There's a way to do it better; find it.”

Thomas Edison

“The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this way."

Grace Hopper

"Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."

"The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention."

Alfred North Whitehead

“Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

Steve Jobs

“If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.”

Charles Kettering

“If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.”

Jeff Bezos

“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.”

Howard Aiken

“If you never want to be criticized, for goodness' sake don't do anything new.”

Jeff Bezos

“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”

John Maynard Keynes

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.”

Peter Drucker

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

“Our industry does not respect tradition; it only respects innovation.”

Satya Nadella

“There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?”

“Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.”

Jane Jacobs

“For a new technology to be affordable to the mass market, you need economies of scale, and you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.”

“It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.”

Jony Ive