Quotes About Innovation

The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.

Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just waiting.

Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking for inspiration.

Money is attracted to great ideas.

Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly.

You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision.

I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.

When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?

You must master a new way to think, before you can master a new way to be.

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive

Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.

The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.

The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.

If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!

Man studied birds for centuries, trying to learn how to make a machine to fly like them. He never did do the trick; his final success came when he broke away entirely and tried new methods.

There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success.

Ideas, more than money, are really the currency for success.

When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.