The Idea Champions’ Heart of Innovation blog recently posted this list of quotes on what it really takes to innovate. Some good ones to inspire you:
4. “If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.” - Charles Kettering
15. “There’s no good idea that cannot be improved on.” - Michael Eisner
24. “You can expect no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.” - Carl Jung (Community Ambassador Note: INFLUENCE! Clearly a man ahead of his time.)
32. “What is now proved was once only imagined.” - William Blake
34. “99 percent of success is built on failure.” - Charles Kettering
39. “I start where the last man left off.” - Thomas Edison
42. “No matter how well you perform, there’s always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it’s lousy.” - Sir Laurence Olivier
45. “The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.” - Linus Pauling
72. “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.” - Rosabeth Moss Kanter
81. “Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.” - Groucho Marx
Any other quotes you like? Add them on the forum!
