21 Quotes to Spark Creativity and Innovation in Your Business

Nothing works better changing a mindset than a great quote. When you’re starting a new project here are some fuel motivators to spark creativity, start a culture for innovation or to prioritize innovation in your business.

1. 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
2. If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got. – Albert Einstein
3. Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open. – T. Dewar
4. Stay hungry. Stay foolish. – Steve Jobs
5. Innovation is anything, but business as usual. – Anonymous
6. 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
7. Managers say yes to innovation when doing nothing is a bigger risk. – Gijs van Wulfen
8. It is not how many ideas you have. It’s how many you make happen. – Advertisement of Accenture
9. Innovation is the ability to convert ideas into invoices. – L. Duncan
10. The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct arising from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the object it loves. – Carl Jung
11. To accomplish great things we must dream as well as act. – Anatole France
12. You can expect no influence if you are not susceptible to influence. – Carl Jung
13. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt
14. The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. – Thomas Edison
15. Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Albert Einstein
16. Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. – Jonathan Swift
17. The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Alan Kay
18. Microsoft is always two years away from failure. – Bill Gates
19. You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new. – Steve Jobs
20. You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere. – Lee Iaccocca
21. I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. – John Cage

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Lisa Caprelli is a business growth expert, speaker and best selling author of Color Your Message: The Art of Digital Marketing and Social Media.