Quotes About Innovation

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, lets use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can't copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.

I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.

No matter where you are in your leadership journey, never forget that what got you to where you are won't get you to the next level.

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.

And the most successful leader of all is one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which belong in his present picture but which are not yet there.

Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they're so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years.

It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industry

The problems that exist in this world can not be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

The manager administers; the leader innovates.

The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them, they have a vision of the future.

We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)

If you want to be an entrepreneur, fail as fast as you can. The longer you go without that experience, the more afraid you will be of it, and then you will never do it!

Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.

Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.

Surround yourself with people smarter than you.

Progress does not occur without change.

If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.

Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice.

Irrelevance happens when the speed of change outside an organization is greater than speed of change inside an organization.

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.