Quotes About Innovation

Creativity requires a willingness to look stupid.

The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.

Great leaders always seem to embody two seemingly disparate qualities. They are both highly visionary and highly practical.

If you combine your thoughts with the thoughts of others, you will come up with thoughts you've never had!

The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.

The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn't require you to think at all." —Kevin Myers

We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all." —Donald M. Nelson

When it comes to taking risks, I believe there are two kinds of people: those who don't dare try new things, and those who don't dare miss them.

You must reject common thinking if you want to accomplish uncommon results.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Henry Ford, who said, "Don't find a fault; find a remedy.

The hero is the one with ideas.

H. Nelson Jackson said, "I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

If you want to be successful as a leader, you need to learn to become comfortable with uncertainty and make shifts continually.

you must be able to take the new thing you've learned today and build upon what you learned yesterday to keep growing.

Leadership is a moving target, and it always will be. If you desire to become a better leader, get comfortable with change. And if you want to lead up, learn to think like a leader. Think people, think progress, and think intangibles.

The more you engage in good thinking, the more good thoughts you will continue to think. As playwright Victor Hugo asserted, An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an invasion of ideas.

Creative people don't avoid failure. They see it as a friend. They know that if they are to experiment, innovate, and create, they will fail. They embrace risk.

Charlie Brower said, "A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow." Negative environments kill thousands of great ideas every minute.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an invasion of ideas." —Victor Hugo

Charlie Brower said, A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. Negative environments kill thousands of great ideas every minute.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency should head the list. —John C. Maxwell

Whenever people on my team come to me with a problem, I ask them to prepare at least three solutions to that problem.