Innovation Quotes

If a founder has passion and innovation, he needs to be supported. I am more intuitive than a numbers person, and I recognise that not all investments are going to be positive. Some may fail, and some may have problems for other reasons. That is life.

To innovate, you need a spirit of inquiry.

Innovation is a continuous process, and it can happen anywhere.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all but goes on making his own business better all the time.

The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.

An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam in the history we make today.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done.

It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.

I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one - and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

If you don't give people a chance to fail... you won't innovate... if you wanna be an innovative company allow people to make mistakes.

I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.

Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!

It's very clear that AI is going to change literally every job. Maybe there's a job in the world that AI won't change, but I haven't thought of it.