Quotes about Innovation

Theodore Hesburgh said, "The very essence of leadership is that you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you can articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." An "uncertain trumpet" is usually the result of an individual who either lacks a vision or is trying to lead with someone else's dream. There is a vast difference between a person with a vision and a visionary person.

Ideas have a short shelf life. You must act on them before the expiration date

Good ideas must be shared, improved upon with the help of other good thinkers, and then they must be implemented and acted upon.

I will build a motorcar for the multitude. It will be large enough for the family but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one—and enjoy with his family the blessings of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.

Pragmatism allows a person to take things that others would consider problems or distractions and see them as opportunities.

Change alone doesn't bring growth but you cannot have growth without change.

Get out of your normal environment today with someone you lead.

Transformational leaders: See things others do not see. Believe things others do not believe. Say things others do not say. Feel things others do not feel. Do things others do not do. Receive things others do not receive.

Progress always requires change.

Everything begins with a thought.

Great vision precedes great achievement.

Only people who can see the invisible can do the impossible.