Quotes on Creativity And Innovation

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.