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Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.
Sep 10, 2025
Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.
All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.
Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
I start where the last man left off.
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.
Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.
Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.
Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.
Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.
It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.
Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.
Move fast and break things.
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.
If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.
Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.
And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.