Elbert Hubbard Quotes

To innovate is not to reform.

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

Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.

Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.

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

Always challenge the old ways.

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

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

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

My goal isn't to be one of the best; it's to change the game, to change the way things work.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

Some great minds become great by turning the rubble of an exploded paradigm into something consistent and meaningful. Others become great by laying the gunpowder, grain by grain. Every important revolution needs both kinds of minds to complete itself.

Disrupt, and you will be saved.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

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

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

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

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.

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.

The new is threatening to those who have mastered the old.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.