Quotes for 2023

 

50 Quotes Sparking Innovation in 2023

An inspiring quote is a great tool to change a mindset. I made a personal collection of 50 outstanding quotes on change and innovation. Use them to inspire others to start a culture of change, to think different and to prioritize change and innovation at the start of 2023. 1. Nothing is stronger than habit. [Ovid] 2. If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got. [Albert Einstein] 3. Status quo is Latin for, 'The mess we're in.' [Ronald Reagan] 4. Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.[Robert C. Gallagher] 5. When the rate of change outside is more than what is inside, be sure that the end is near. [Azim Premji] 6. Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right. [Steve Jobs] 7. The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed. [William Gibson] 8. It’s tough when markets change and your people within the company don’t. [Harvard Business Review] 9. Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. [Will Rogers] 10. They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. [Andy Warhol] 11. We cannot solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. [A. Einstein] 12. Necessity is the mother of invention. [Anonymous] 13. 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] 14. When all think alike, then no one is thinking. [Walter Lippmann] 15. The biggest room is the room for improvement. [Anonymous] 16. Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open. [T. Dewar] 17. He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them. [Aristotle] 18. 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] 19. The future is not what it used to be. [Anonymous] 20. There are no old roads to new directions. [The Boston Consulting Group] 21. You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. [Andre Gide] 22. Innovation is anything, but business as usual. [Anonymous] 23. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. [Alan Kay] 24. Promotions may win quarters, innovation wins decades. [former P&G CEO Bob McDonald] 25. If at first the idea is not absurd, then there will be no hope for it. [A. Einstein] 26. The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. [Arthur Koestler] 27. An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. [Oscar Wilde] 28. A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. [A. von Szent-Gyorgyi] 29. Managers say yes to innovation only if doing nothing is a bigger risk. [Gijs van Wulfen]. 30. Innovation is the ability to convert ideas into invoices. [L. Duncan] 31. Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. [Demosthenes] 32. Luck is where the crossroads of opportunity and preparation meet. [Seneca] 33. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference. [Robert Frost] 34. Stay hungry. Stay foolish. [Steve Jobs] 35. The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. [A. Clarke] 36. The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear. [Vincent Van Gogh] 37. Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. [Thomas Edison] 38. The impossible is often the untried. [J. Goodwin] 39. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. [Dale Carnegie] 40. The biggest risk in innovation lies in sticking too closely to your plans. [D. Hills, Walt Disney Company] 41. Ideas are useless unless used. [T. Levitt] 42. If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.[Jim Rohn] 43. It is not how many ideas you have. It’s how many you make happen. [Advertisement of Accenture] 44. The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own. [N. Bushnell] 45. It’s kind of fun to do the impossible. [Walt Disney] 46. Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. [T.S. Eliot] 47. If you want to go fast - go alone. But if you want to go far - go together. [African proverb] 48. Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer. [Dan Brown] 49. The person who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person doing it. [Chinese saying]. 50. You can invent alone, but you can only innovate together. That's why I-nnovation should be called WE-nnovation. [Gijs van Wulfen]