Quotes About Innovation

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Too often we forget that genius ... depends upon the data within its reach, that Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea.

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.

Activity in back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of a genius.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things always have been done. ... I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

There's a pinch of the madman in every great man.

No man ever yet became great by imitation.

The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement.

We want to create an atmosphere in which creation is possible.

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable.

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you cannot put an idea up against a barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.

Great ideas are not charitable.