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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Sep 17, 2025
Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.
Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.
There can be no solution to the challenge of climate change that is not global. But if we can come together in partnership, we can transform today's challenge into tomorrow's opportunity - an opportunity for green growth and sustainable prosperity... we also need a strong bottom-up push from academics and opinion-shapers such as you. Universities such as yours are founts of ideas and innovation. They are furnaces of innovation and entrepreneurship. So, send forth this word.
It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.
Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.
Great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.
The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams.
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.
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
I start where the last man left off.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.
It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.
It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.
I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
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.
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Innovation is the creation of the new, or the re-arranging of the old in a new way
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.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.
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.
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.
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
History is the same thing over and over again.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.