Innovation Quotes

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

~ Jay Samit

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

~ Jay Samit

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

~ Jay Samit

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

~ Jay Samit

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

~ Jay Samit

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

~ Jay Samit

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

~ Jay Samit

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

~ Jay Samit

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.

~ Jay Samit

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

~ Jay Samit

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solutions.

~ Jay Samit

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

~ Jay Samit

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

~ Jay Samit

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

~ Jay Samit

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

~ Jay Samit

Security doesn't rob ambition, the illusion of security robs ambition.

~ Jay Samit

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

~ Jay Samit

All Disruption starts with introspection.

~ Jay Samit

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

~ Jay Samit

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

~ Jay Samit

Life is full of different opportunities and decisions to make, and these decisions are what mold our future and “destiny”, and the results of these decisions are a product of hard work and determination and just maybe a little bit of luck.

~ Telson Erebor

Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

~ Edward Abbey

Innovation is deviance which means that the rebellious personality is a natural resource for practical creativity. As an innovator, you need to reject the old to establish a new, better, status quo. And one of the most powerful sources of newness is the rebel or maverick, mind.

~ Max Mckeown

Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before.

~ Jay Abraham

Creativity dies in an indisciplined environment.

~ James C. Collins

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

~ Anthony Jay

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

~ Theodore Levitt

...innovation is highly context-dependent. It is a response to a particular problem at a particular time and place. Take away the context, and you remove both the spur to innovation, and its raw material.

~ Matthew Syed

Question everything, including your questions. Don't be afraid to ask questions. Why are you asking? Why are you asking in this particular way? Is it really the right question for the answer you are seeking? Are there additional questions you need to be asking? Don't be afraid to think outside of the box. Don't be afraid of creativity and innovation.

~ Akiroq Brost

The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours

~ Michael Lewis

While the individual contributions provide the “building block” of creativity, it is the collective consensus on what to do with them that is exciting.

~ Pearl Zhu

Many creative minds, just like many light bulbs, lit up simultaneously, could lead to brainstorming and breakthrough innovation.

~ Pearl Zhu

The true conflict in innovation is self-imposed by trying to make our visions reality.

~ Pearl Zhu

Innovation is about moving forward. If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. There is no standing still.

~ Pearl Zhu

Digital is the age of innovation because creativity is about connecting the dots in the wider scope.

~ Pearl Zhu

Creativity is the potential which can be unlocked and innovation is the serendipity which can be unpuzzled.

~ Pearl Zhu

To succeed in driving innovation, it is essential for empowering people to push ideas forward, and the entire company to be pulling in the right direction

~ Pearl Zhu

Innovators with global thinking find more viewing spots that the rest; therefore, they can solve problems in unconventional ways.

~ Pearl Zhu

Innovations succeed when failure is seen as a learning step to great success.

~ Pearl Zhu

None of us will ever know enough, and that is why humility is a critical component of innovativeness.

~ Pearl Zhu