12 Quotes About Invention

12 Motivational Quotes Remind us that a Mindset of Continuous Improvement Leads to Continuous Invention in the Workplace

Without a will to invent, a business can quickly be overtaken by competitors or rendered obsolete. These twelve motivational quotes for the workplace remind us what it takes to create a culture of continuous improvement.

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascent the brightest heaven of invention.”
William Shakespeare

“To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.”
Thomas A. Edison

“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and growing our wings on the way down.”
Kurt Vonnegut

“Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress
makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.”
Susan B. Anthony

“Realize up front that invention is a process; things don’t happen overnight.”
Louis Foreman, CEO of Edison Nation

“An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in – not the world in which it started.”
Tim O’Reilly

“Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.”
Tom Clancy

“Doubt is the father of invention.”
Ambrose Bierce

“I never did anything worth doing by accident,
nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”
Plato

“The man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by the person doing it.”
Elbert Hubbard

“There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen.
Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.”
Helen Frankenthaler

“Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.”
Archimedes

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