Innovators Quotes

“People’s confidence in their abilities influences how they approach life. Their dreams are likely anchored to what they feel they can achieve.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“Innovators are owners of the situation. They own it because they create it—quite literally. They embrace the world as it should match the vision in their heads. And when something is missing from that vision, they fill the gap.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“The moment you will stop innovating, somebody else will make your product outdated and will become the market leader.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Belief that you can act is a powerful motivator. Belief that change can happen in a flash is an even stronger motivator.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

“The problem with most smart people is that they are too dumb to distinguish necessity from luxury, that's why despite having the resources to deal with real problems that cause misery to humanity, they keep wasting those resources on pompous dreams. And you can have first-hand experience with such stupidity if you visit any CES event. Whether it is smart toilet or smart underwear, there is no end to intellectual, wealthy and pompous stupidity. Silicon Valley is no longer the valley of innovators who solve problems, it has turned into the valley of resourceful stupidity. They are a bunch of people wasting resources on creating products that do nothing more than fuel the predominant neurosis of consumerism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth

“Our human history is the history of ideas. Our human future is the future of ideas. Human desire. Human imagination. Human ingenuity. Creating and copying. Tool-makers and dream-chasers.”
― Max McKeown, Innovation Book, The: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

“Innovators make the previously impossible possible.”
― Max McKeown, The Innovator's Book: Rules for rebels, mavericks and innovators

“New ideas are like babies, beautiful, ugly and not finished yet.”
― Max McKeown, The Innovator's Book: Rules for rebels, mavericks and innovators

“Those without a choice in life are often the most innovative.”
― Kevin Ansbro

“The greatest failure you can make as innovator is being afraid of failure.”
― Gijs van Wulfen

“Innovators with resources and smartness, are more busy with pompous dreams of colonizing mars, while their own kind suffers on earth.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“It takes people from the outside to change things on the inside. Innovation happens from outsiders.”
― Richie Norton

“It takes a community to raise a new idea - Pioneers, trendsetters, hipsters, hackers, hustlers, trailblazers, inventors, heretics, creators, problem-solvers, optimists, obsessives, firestarters, scientists, risktakers, disrupters, gamechangers, explorers, and garage heroes... People like you.”
― Max McKeown, E-Customer

“Before invention there is insight.”
― Max McKeown, The Innovator's Book: Rules for rebels, mavericks and innovators

“Self-discipline coupled with passion and innovation will get you far in this world.”
― Germany Kent

“And if the novel [The Education of Cyrus] remains dull by modern standards, we have to remind ourselves Xenophon didn't set out to write a "novel" — there was no such thing yet in his culture — but was feeling his way to a new form somewhere between factual history and fanciful epic. Our hat is always off to innovators.”
― Steven Moore, The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600

“To be innovative, you need to be ahead of the data.”
― Shawn Wells, The Energy Formula: Six life changing ingredients to unleash your limitless potential

“Genius By The Dozen (A Sonnet)

Given the resources, I can build any technology,
Unlike some people, I do not need to hire genius.
Yet I gave up my obsession of electronics, because,
Building rockets is easy, building society not so much.
Not everybody is born with a silver spoon in mouth,
Rest of us have to choose among bread, dreams and tears.
But don't assume that I am whining about a misfortune,
Because, a reformer is worth a hundred entrepreneurs.
Rocket science is child's play for even a fisherman's son,
Cognitive Science is common sense for a laborer's child.
Yet you boast about a bunch of counterfeit geniuses whose,
Greatest power is that they are born with a golden hide.
If you seek true genius, lend a hand to developing nations.
And they'll give you Gates, Musks and Byrons by the dozens.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“We need more wise leaders and innovators. We need less of, "The blind leading the blind", type of activity.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Innovation doesn't stop at the first NO! That's the moment it really starts.”
― Gijs van Wulfen

“On the vast ocean of innovation, your path is your power.”
― Gijs van Wulfen

“Innovators need adaptors to transform their ideas into reality.”
― Gijs van Wulfen

“Impactful innovators turn no’s into yesses.”
― Gijs van Wulfen

“An innovator should have the patience of a hunter to pick the right moment.”
― Gijs van Wulfen

“Effective innovators create new business models by solving customer problems.”
― Gijs van Wulfen

“The best guarantee to win management buy-in for innovation is a launching customer.”
― Gijs van Wulfen

“The biggest barrier to innovation is a lack of management buy-in.”
― Gijs van Wulfen

“When the change in your market outsprints the change in your organisation, you will have a problem sooner or later.”
― Gijs van Wulfen

“Effective innovators know what customers dream about.”
― Gijs van Wulfen

“You only get new ideas when you get new insights.”
― Gijs van Wulfen