Innovation Quotes

"Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world." "The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design." "When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked." "If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic -- being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have be" "Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world." "Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes." "Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times." "All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea." "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." "Good ideas are free – or at least they should be." "Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing." "If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering." "All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's."