Quotes on Innovative Ideas

Innovative ideas are rarely rejected on their merits; they’re rejected because of how they make people feel. If you forget people’s concerns and feelings when you present an innovation, or neglect to understand their perspectives in your design, you’re setting yourself up to fail.

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

After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.