Quotes on Innovation: Steve Jobs to Attorney Martin Russo and Jeff Bezos

Innovation is key to progression within an industry. People such as Steve Jobs, have helped foster cultures of innovation within the largest companies in the world. Doing so, we are gifted technology and products to help make our daily lives easier. We have collected are curated our favorite quotes on innovation, to help serve as inspiration for those in need!

•“Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.” Steve Jobs

•“If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.” Jeff Bezos

•“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.” Zig Ziglar

•“An innovation, to be effective, has to be simple and it has to be focused. It should do only one thing, otherwise, it confuses. If it is not simple, it won’t work.” Peter F. Drucker

•“The best brands never start out with the intent of building a great brand. They focus on building a great – and profitable – product or service and an organization that can sustain it.” Scott Bedbury

•“Obsessively specialize. No niche is too small if it’s yours.” Seth Godin

•“Hard work is the best way to innovate.” Martin Russo, Attorney

•“Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.” James Cash Penney

•“Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.” Edward Felten

•“Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you’re marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you.” Arthur Levitt

•“The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” Mark Zuckerberg

•“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” Jack Welch

•“Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones of genius.” Elbert Hubbard

•“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it build, they’ll want something new.” Steve Jobs

•“The secret is to make the time to immerse yourself in the people you’re marketing to. To live them, breathe with them and study them from every angle.” Lisa Fortini-Campbell

•“In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words; people, product and profits. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with the other two.” Lee Iacocca

•“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.” Harold S. Geneen

•“Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.” Norman Mailer

•“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.” Calvin Coolidge

•“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” John F. Kennedy