Inspiration And Innovation Quotes

To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

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.

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

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.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.

You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

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.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

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.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

People will never forget how you made them feel.

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat