Motivational Quotes

Ideas

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

- Brande, Dorothea

Best Quotes about Ideas

1.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Rivarol, Antoine

2.

Little words hurt big ideas.

Newton, Howard W.

3.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Cameron, Julie

4.

When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge.

Kupferberg, Tuli

5.

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Samuel Goldwyn

6.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.

Clarke, Arthur C.

7.

It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

8.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

Oech, Roger Von

9.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Canetti, Elias

11.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Walter Bagehot

12.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

13.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

James, Henry

14.

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.

Eliot, George

15.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

16.

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.

Hodges, Job E.

17.

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.

Mason, Ken

18.

Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

Baruch, Bernard M.

19.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Rohn, Jim

20.

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

21.

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

Rostand, Jean

22.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man. --

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

Emile Chartier

24.

The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

Williamson, John

25.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

P. B. Medawar

26.

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.

Simpson, E. L.

27.

Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.

Gibson, Tobias S.

28.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Schuller, Robert H.

29.

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he would make a fortune.

Niblack, Griff

30.

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.

Robbins, Irvine

31.

So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

Brande, Dorothea

32.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds

Gourmont, Remy De

33.

An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Frost, Robert

34.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Carnegie, Dale

35.

If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Jones, Barry

36.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Lynch, David

37.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

38.

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

Sir Frederick G. Banting

39.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Edison, Thomas A.

40.

Ideas control the world.

Garfield, James A.

41.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

42.

A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.

Koysis, Ted

43.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

44.

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Brown, Ron

45.

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.

Rickover, Hyman G.

46.

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

Carl Schurz

47.

What you need is an idea.

Lear, William P.

48.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Hill, Napoleon

49.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

50.

You have to hatch ideas -- and then hitch them.