Excellent Quotes on Innovation in Business
In business, innovation is critical. It can mean the difference between unmeasured success and obsolescence.
This decade opened with a number of unforeseen challenges like the global pandemic. It’s been amazing to see the applied ingenuity of people and companies around the world as they race to re-make their businesses. No matter your industry, your day to day work has changed.
As you continue to innovate to serve your customers better in the new business climate, you can find inspiration from the wisdom presented in the following quotes.
Enjoy these quotes about innovation!
As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.
Michael Dell
Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.
Sara Blakely
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
Warren Bennis
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
Peter F. Drucker
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.
Niccolò Machiavelli
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
Warren Bennis
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
President John F. Kennedy
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford
Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.
Chris Grosser
When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.
Josh James
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
President John F. Kennedy
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
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