Innovation Quotes

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible!

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

I'll play it first, and tell you what it is later.

If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.

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.

In every work of genius, we recognize our once rejected thoughts.

Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport.

Innovation is the whim of an elite before it becomes a need of the public.

I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.

If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.

I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Great designers innovate, good designers emulate.

Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.