Be Innovative with these 21 Innovation Quotes

 Thomas Smith — 'Innovation is any change big or small that makes a difference.'

1. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. -Steve Jobs 

2. Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow. -William Pollard 

3. The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation. -Bob Iger 

4. Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.-Julia Gillard 

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

6. Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation. -Rosabeth Moss Kanter 

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

8. A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules. -Vivek Wadhwa 

9. Innovation happens because there are people out there doing and trying a lot of different things. -Edward Felten 

10. Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make. -Tim Berners-Lee 

11. A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards. -Jim Hunt 

12. Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth. -William E. Simon 

13. Innovation is the ability to convert ideas into invoices. -L. Duncan 

14. The innovation point is the pivotal moment when talented and motivated people seek the opportunity to act on their ideas and dreams. -W. Arthur Porter 

15. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.- Theodore Levitt 

16. Innovation accelerates and compounds. Each point in front of you is bigger than anything that ever happened.- Marc Andreessen 

17. Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity. - Michael Porter 

18. Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.- Leon Kass 

19. Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.- William Pollard 

20. No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.- Seth Godin 

21. The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication.- Michael E. Gerber