100 Innovation Quotes That Embrace New Thinking In Business

The business world never stands still, and those who innovate often lead the way. Innovation isn’t just about new products.

It’s about thinking differently, solving problems creatively, and staying ahead of the curve.

These innovation quotes come from visionaries who’ve challenged convention and sparked meaningful change.

Tap into their insights to spark your own innovative thinking.

Top Innovation Quotes

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. ~ Steve Jobs

The best way to predict the future is to create it. ~ Peter Drucker

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

If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got. ~ Albert Einstein

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Innovation is taking two things that exist and putting them together in a new way. ~ Tom Freston

There’s a way to do it better—find it. ~ Thomas Edison

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time. ~ Bill Gates

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity—not a threat. ~ Steve Jobs

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast. ~ Peter Drucker

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. ~ Theodore Levitt

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity. ~ Michael Porter

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. ~ John Maynard Keynes

You can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level. ~ Albert Einstein

Innovation comes from saying NO to 1,000 things. ~ Steve Jobs

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. ~ Albert Einstein

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. ~ Albert Einstein

Creativity is intelligence having fun. ~ Albert Einstein

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic. ~ Peter Drucker

Innovation is change that unlocks new value. ~ Jamie Notter

Disruptive Innovation Quotes

Disruptive innovation is not a breakthrough innovation that makes good products a lot better; it transforms a product that historically was so expensive and complicated that only a few people with a lot of money and a lot of skill had access to it. ~ Clayton Christensen

The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles. ~ Oren Harari

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative. ~ Woody Allen

The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea. ~ Peter Diamandis

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ~ Alan Kay

Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. ~ Dr. Albert Szent-Györgyi

The stone age didn’t end because they ran out of stones. ~ Unknown

The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed. ~ William Gibson

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create. ~ Leonard I. Sweet

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on. ~ Barack Obama

The future is purchased by the present. ~ Samuel Johnson

The future starts today, not tomorrow. ~ Pope John Paul II

The future will be better tomorrow. ~ Dan Quayle

The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation. ~ Bill Clinton

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. ~ C.S. Lewis

The future ain’t what it used to be. ~ Yogi Berra

The future will belong to the nature-smart—those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need. ~ Richard Louv

The future is uncertain but the end is always near. ~ Jim Morrison

The future is not set, there is no fate but what we make for ourselves. ~ John Connor

Creative Problem Solving Quotes

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. ~ Linus Pauling

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. ~ Edward de Bono

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. ~ Steve Jobs

Creativity is intelligence having fun. ~ Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. ~ Albert Einstein

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. ~ Ken Robinson

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. ~ Maya Angelou

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~ Scott Adams

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye. ~ Dorothy Parker

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. ~ Eric Hoffer

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. ~ Theodore Levitt

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. ~ James Russell Lowell

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating. ~ John Cleese

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. ~ William Plomer

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist. ~ Thomas Disch

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. ~ Eric Hoffer

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. ~ Earl Nightingale

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty. ~ Bryant H. McGill

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence. ~ Osho

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. ~ Cecil B. DeMille

Technological Innovation Quotes

Technology is best when it brings people together. ~ Matt Mullenweg

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. ~ Albert Einstein

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life. ~ Bill Gates

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them. ~ Steve Jobs

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. ~ Bill Gates

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. ~ Carl Sagan

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. ~ Sydney J. Harris

Technology is a word that describes something that doesn’t work yet. ~ Douglas Adams

The human spirit must prevail over technology. ~ Albert Einstein

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. ~ Bill Gates

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication. ~ Libby Larsen

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. ~ Christian Lous Lange

Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born. ~ Alan Kay

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. ~ John Lasseter

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. ~ Max Frisch

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. ~ Freeman Dyson

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. ~ Bill Gates

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories. ~ Laurie Anderson

Innovative Leadership Quotes

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. ~ Warren Bennis

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. ~ Peter Drucker

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. ~ John C. Maxwell

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~ Ralph Nader

Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about taking care of those in your charge. ~ Simon Sinek

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be. ~ Rosalynn Carter

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. ~ Ronald Reagan

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. ~ Arnold H. Glasow

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. ~ John F. Kennedy

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. ~ Jim Rohn

Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. ~ Bill Bradley

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. ~ Lao Tzu

The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority. ~ Kenneth H. Blanchard

Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. ~ Peter Drucker

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. ~ John Maxwell

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. ~ Douglas MacArthur

Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. ~ John C. Maxwell

The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been. ~ Henry Kissinger

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. ~ Seth Godin