40+ Famous Quotes on Innovation from innovators like Einstein, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk,…

Quotes on innovation and creativity are cool! These famous inspirational innovations quotes from Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk,… inspire use to do great things.

Here’s a list of my favorite famous quotes on innovation and leadership. They are part of my every expanding amazing quotes list. And at the end, you will also find a new list with innovation quotes from Steve Jobs.

I hope they inspire you to do great things and be successful!

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Quotes on Innovation: infographic

Quotes on Innovation: top 25

Here’s a list of my 25 favorite quotes on innovation with easy-to-use images.

If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.

Albert Einstein

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham Maslow

It’s tough when markets change and your people within the company don’t.

Harvard Business Review

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Anonymous

We don’t know who discovered water, but we’re certain it wasn’t a fish.

John M. Culkin

Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

The stone age didn’t end because they ran out of stones.

Anonymous

Innovation is the ability to convert ideas into invoices.

L. Duncan

We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before.

Deepak Chopra

Ideas are useless unless used.

Theodoree Levitt

Innovation is anything, but business as usual.

Anonymous

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

Theodore Levitt

Swipe from the best, then adapt.

Tom Peters

Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.

Pablo Picasso

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.

Antoine Saint-Exupery

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

Peter F. Drucker

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.

Alan Cohen

Don’t be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George

You can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level.

Albert Einstein

What we’ve done to encourage innovation is make it ordinary.

C. Wynett, Procter & Gamble

Remember, a dead fish can float down a stream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

W.C. Fields

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Jonas Salk

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

John Maynard Keynes

And I recently got this cool innovation quote from Erik Speeckaert (thx!)

Innovation Quotes Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs is an innovation icon. He is known for his creativity, his vision, and his rebellion against the status quo. Steve Jobs and innovation go hand in hand.

To look at an Apple product or watch a Pixar movie is looking at innovation executed.

Steve jobs is also know for saying some wise things about innovation.

Here’s a list of my favourite inspirational innovation quotes from Steve Jobs:

I’m as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand 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.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

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

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of discipline.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

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.

Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology – not the other way around.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem

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.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.

If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away.

Don’t let the noise of other’s’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

And finally:

Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently; they’re not fond of rules. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Want to read more about innovation?

Check out this guide about setting up the best possible innovation process.

It explains the main stages of innovation.

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