Quotes About Innovation

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.

Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - - but create!

A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

There is an important distinction between barriers to entry and barriers to imitation.

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.

The qualities of creativity and genius are within you, awaiting your decision to match up with the power of intention.

In today's fast-changing world, it's not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old. It is how fast you learn. That skill is priceless.

Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

The most effective way to manage change is to create it.

If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.

Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.

Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it's a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way.

When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Failures are life's way of nudging you and letting you know you are off course. Trying new things and not being afraid to fail along the way are more important than what you learn in school.