Innovation Quotes

Appreciation and recognition are qualities that most leaders forget, but desperately need, to build a positive, passionate and engaged workplace.

~ Tony Dovale

A Culture of clear consistent communication and connection is the foundation of a high performance team that thrives and flourishes.

~ Tony Dovale

High Performance Teams create cultures of caring, connection, commitment, collaboration and clear consistent communication

~ Tony Dovale

Your UNconscious mind has more power, influence and control over your thoughts, feelings, decisions, and choices, than your conscious mind.

~ Tony Dovale

Most people are interested in success, but not COMMITTED to success, which is why 85%+ of people seldom achieve their desired level of success.

~ Tony Dovale

Limitless Leadership is the secret ingredient that helps common people, create high performance teams, that achieve outstanding and uncommon results.

~ Tony Dovale

A High Performance team requires people with High Performance Mindsets, with relevant competence, committed and balanced communication, to a meaningful and challenging goal.

~ Tony Dovale

In order to master the ability to lead, develop and deliver innovation at speed systematically, you must challenge your assumptions and expectations that influence your actions.

~ K. Melissa Kennedy

The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader. - Quoting Derek Sivers

~ Adam M. Grant

Be bold in pursuing what others believe is unrealistic because this will achieve more than being bland and unimaginative.

~ Janna Cachola

Innovative leaders today are digital conductors, problem-solvers, and culture influencers.

~ Pearl Zhu

Innovative thinkers are explorers and synthesizers of new world views or future views of the world.

~ Pearl Zhu

Go on your way , use you brain , be innovative, achieve your dreams and don’t turn back, because you left so many envious people behind you !! …

~ Ibnoulkhatib Yahya

The art of questioning is to ignite innovative thinking; the science of questioning is to frame system thinking, with the progressive pursuit of better solutions.

~ Pearl Zhu

Rhetorical question: Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo?I didn't.

~ Richie Norton

Behind every successful innovation, was a presentation in a closed room

~ Aayush Jain

... I believe that he will prosper most whose mode of acting best adapts itself to the character of the times; and conversely that he will be unprosperous, with whose mode of acting the times do not accord.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

... From want of foresight men make changes which relishing well at first do not betray their hidden venom, as I have already observed respecting hectic fever. Nevertheless, the ruler is not truly wise who cannot discern evils before they develop themselves, and this is a faculty given to few.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

[That] speaks to one of the most important roles of a leader; to boil down an organization's many priorities into a simple plan, so that employees can remember it, internalize it, and act on it.

~ Adam Bryant

Innovation is the art of creating a better, a more convenient and more comfortable way for the world to pass. Leaders leave footprints everywhere they go. They are impact makers and innovators.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A $10,000 investment in Dell at its 1988 initial public offering would have yielded a fortune of ~$6 million at the stock’s peak.

~ Heather Simmons

Knowing that an asteroid is going to hit the earth is not really useful if you are not planning to launch missiles to knock it out of the sky. You have to work massively overtime on the belief that innovation or massive change is going to happen.' — Tom Martin, former VP of marketing

~ Heather Simmons

To the disrupters go the spoils.

~ Heather Simmons

Nobody thought the direct business model would work. But work it did, and spectacularly. Until it didn’t. And therein lies the tale.

~ Heather Simmons

Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

~ Marc Jacobs

Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Technology is important to Art because it connects creativity with innovation and the spirit of inventiveness. Whether we are using technology to create our art, or to share our art, it challenges artists to explore new realms of aesthetic experience and cultural relevance. But, on the other hand, Art is important to Technology for the most important reason of all. Art gives Technology its humanity. And our humanity is the driving force behind every new technology we design and every product we manufacture. We are all makers. Without creativity, we don’t make anything. If we don’t make anything, we don’t progress.

~ Kim Chestney

Lying there in the darkness, he knew he was an outcast. 'Cos I had some sense.

~ William Golding

... He who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new... partly from the incredulity of mankind, who will never admit the merit of anything new, until they have seen it proved by the event.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

Ideas are the currency of innovation.

~ David Brier

Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.

~ Steven Johnson

Berners-Lee was supremely lucky in the work environment he had settled into, the Swiss particle physics lab CERN. It took him ten years to nurture his slow hunch about a hypertext information platform.

~ Steven Johnson

Much depends on asking the right question at the right time.

~ Arthur Koestler

Time and time over it is the ones who try a little too hard to be innovative rebels - and for the sheer glory of being considered innovative rebels - who then turn out not quite as innovative or as rebellious as they would like to think they are.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Peter F. Drucker

People LOVE change (when it's about changing others). People HATE change (when it's about changing themselves).

~ Richie Norton

If you want an incredibly passionate, happy, ALIVE business…don’t overcomplicate things. Once all is said and done, the foundational elements of a successful business are very simple: respect, service, value and sales. Comparatively, everything else is froth.

~ Richie Norton

It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSIT. Don't wait. Just ship.

~ Richie Norton

To create different work, one needs new tools and materials

~ Natasha Tsakos