Howard Schultz Quotes

To innovate is not to reform.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

I believe in being an innovator.

In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'

I just want to innovate.

The big deal for me has always been innovation.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

We should all seek to innovate, or be curious about innovation. Innovation truly is one of our greatest gifts.

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.

Novelty even is useful if a general opinion prevails that the old way is bad.