Ideas Quotations..

• I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club)
  Roman Abramovich # Love, Passion, Idea, Business, Enjoyment Quotes
• Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.
  Karl Albrecht # Ideas, Deals, Business Quotes
• The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.
  Paul Allen # Idea, Technology, Excellent Quotes
• Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.
  Giorgio Armani # Dreams, Idea, Fashion Quotes
• If people want to change, they will. If they don't want to, it's hard to make them do so. The current interest in the environment is a good thing. The best way to make a contribution in fashion is to promote the idea that a fundamental interest in preserving the environment is itself fashionable.
  Giorgio Armani # Changes, Fashion, Idea, Environment Quotes
• When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.
  Bernard Arnault # Action, Encouragement, Good, Idea Quotes
• A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one.
  Mary Kay Ash # Idea, Ambition, Inspirational Quotes
• I loved planning 'The Tyra Show' more than actually having to do it. I loved coming up with show ideas, honing each program and crafting it. I'm more excited being in a meeting than being on TV.
  Tyra Banks # Media, Famous, Talk Show, Idea, Emotions, Enjoyment, Television, Entertainment, Result Quotes
• Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.
  Jeff Bezos # Good, Idea, Bad, Challenging, Problem Quotes
• Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
  Tim Blixseth # Business, Ideas, Action, Serious, Great, Important Quotes
• It is once your ideas have been transformed into enough money, and if all failed, you would still live your lifestyle, and you understand that just because you have made more money than most, you are not better than the common person. We are all going to die broke. (Blixseth's definition of success)
  Tim Blixseth # Plan, Ideas, Action, Money, Success, Wealth, Failure, Death, Reality Quotes
• Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
  Edward de Bono # Problems, Changes, Solutions, Idea, Action Quotes
• Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
  Edward de Bono # Research, Idea, Wrong, Belief, Truth Quotes
• The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
  Edward de Bono # Idea, Wrong, Interesting Quotes
• Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
  Edward de Bono # Opportunity, Idea, Inspirational Quotes
• Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
  Edward de Bono # Creative, Idea, Achievement, Fun, Interesting Quotes
• I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have to keep an open mind to see their virtue.
  Richard Branson # Life, Idea, Opportunity Quotes
• I can imagine no more important contribution to our country's future than a long-term commitment to improving urban K-12 public schools.
  Eli Broad # Plan, Ideas, Commitment, Action, Important, Money, Improvement, School, Education Quotes
• There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas.. more than money.. are the real currency for success.
  Eli Broad # Knowledge, Newspaper, News, Idea, Money, Dollars, Success, Finance Quotes
• Our new economic approach is rooted in ideas which stress the importance of macro-economics, post neo-classical endogenous growth theory and the symbiotic relationships between growth and investment, and people and infrastructure.
  Gordon Brown # Economic, Ideas, Important, Growth, Investing Quotes
• An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
  Gautama Buddha # Encouragement, Idea, Action, Hard Work, Smart Quotes
• I always had the idea that philanthropy was important today, but would be equally important in one year, ten years, 20 years, and the future generally.
  Warren Buffett # Idea, Philanthropy Quotes
• Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?
  Dale Carnegie # Faith, Idea, Inspirational Quotes
• You can dramatize your ideas in business or in any other aspect of your life. It's easy.
  Dale Carnegie # Idea, Business, Life Quotes
• We are opposed to support for any ideas pursuing a revolutionary, forcible change in the current system.
  Viktor Chernomyrdin # Support, Ideas, Changes, Revolution Quotes
• I never like to say that I 'believe' anything. There are no ideas worth believing.
  Jacques Chirac # Belief, Idea, Experience Quotes
• Most people think it's all about the idea. It's not. EVERYONE has ideas. The hard part is doing the homework to know if the idea could work in an industry, then doing the preparation to be able to execute on the idea.
  Mark Cuban # Thinking, Idea, Difficult, Challenging, Business Quotes
• From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.
  Michael Dell # Idea, Technology Quotes
• When we consider a project, we really study it — not just the surface idea, but everything about it. And when we go into that new project, we believe in it all the way. We have confidence in our ability to do it right.
  Walt Disney # Idea, Passion, Research, Confidence, Belief Quotes
• The only thing that matters is how you touch people. Have I given anyone insight? That's what I want to have done. Insight lasts; theories don't.
  Peter Drucker # Idea, Change, Inspirational Quotes
• Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.
  Peter Drucker # Questions, Conflict, Idea Quotes
• I always went into an area that was in last place, with a philosophy, 'You can't fall off the floor.' And I was lucky, was at the right time and the right place, with the right ideas, and each one of these areas became number one.
  Michael Eisner # Thinking, Positive, Luck, Idea, Success, Achievement Quotes
• There's no good idea that can't be improved on.
  Michael Eisner # Idea, Improvement, Motivational, Ambition Quotes
• It's fascinating as we continue to innovate and lead the way in both the application space and the database space. In the very beginning, people said you couldn't make relational databases fast enough to be commercially viable. I thought we could, and we were the first to do it. But we took tremendous abuse until IBM said, "Oh yeah, this stuff is good."
  Larry Ellison # Innovative, Ambition, Leadership, Success, Idea Quotes
• Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one.
  Shawn Fanning # Technology, Media, Ideas, Imagination Quotes
• User feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas.
  Shawn Fanning # Excellent, Technology, Ideas, Customers, Attitude Quotes
• I was at Northeastern University playing with the idea and getting feedback from my roommates, and then started drafting a really basic design idea.
  Shawn Fanning # Idea, Courage, Action Quotes
• I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.
  Joschka Fischer # Belief, Power, Ideas Quotes
• Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
  Larry Flynt # Religion, Idea, Negative, Bad Quotes
• To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.
  Bill Gates # Company, Ideas, Opportunity, Internet, Change, Management Quotes
• If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes.
  Malcolm Gladwell # Thinking, Psychology, Negative, Idea Quotes
• America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
  Mikhail Gorbachev # America, Democracy, Teaching, Advertising, Ideas, Life, World Quotes
• I am sure that back in 1914 the typical person had a much clearer idea of what he meant by investing his money, and what he meant by speculating with his money. He had no exaggerated ideas of what an investment operation should bring him.
  Ben Graham # Idea, Investing, Money Quotes
• You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas will not get you anywhere.
  Lee Iacocca # Idea Quotes
• Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.
  Steve Jobs # Life, Thinking, Idea Quotes
• Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.
  Magic Johnson # Idea, Company, Research, Competition, Customers Quotes
• I'm opposed to the idea of a flat-rate tax, and I doubt I'd sign it. Attempts to introduce a liberal utopia need to be opposed. The presidential office should oppose such ideas and care for social equilibrium to be maintained.
  Lech Kaczynski # Idea, Tax, Doubt, Protest, Solidarity Quotes
• Being prepared for a job is a good idea for the short term, but it is not enough for the long term.
  Robert Kiyosaki # Idea, Good, Job Quotes
• People don't like the idea of thinking long term. Many are desperately seeking short term answers because they have money problems to be solved today.
  Robert Kiyosaki # Thinking, Idea, Investing, Money, Problems, Solutions Quotes
• There's lots of stocks out there and all you need is a few of 'em. That's been my philosophy.
  Peter Lynch # Stocks, Idea Quotes
• It's always said the small investor doesn't have a chance. And if they (people) so believe this theory that the small investor has no chance, they invest in a different format.
  Peter Lynch # Idea, Investing, Belief Quotes
• That's what business is like. If someone comes to you and says they've got a great idea, you've got to come back at them and say: "That's a great idea, but my idea to promote it is even better".
  Max Markson # Business, Marketing, Idea Quotes
• People have ideas all the time. I've had millions of them. The hard part isn't having the idea, it's making it work.
  Max Markson # Action, Idea, Determined Quotes
• Examples of selling of ideas are portrayed in consulting or paid advice, as the pricing of intellectual property is market driven.
  Chuck Martin # Selling, Idea, Advice, Property, Intelligent Quotes
• From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
  Karl Marx # Idea, Concept Quotes
• In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people by example and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.
  Rupert Murdoch # Motivational, Idea, Employee Quotes
• We start with the written word. Then we get to TV, originally with the idea that it will protect the advertising base and it then progresses into a medium of its own with news, programmes and ideas. You then look at TV and you say: 'Look, we don't want to just buy programmes from a Hollywood studio, we'd better have one.'
  Rupert Murdoch # Idea, Advertising Quotes
• News — communicating news and ideas, I guess — is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.
  Rupert Murdoch # Communication, Idea, Passion Quotes
• eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.
  Pierre Omidyar # Brands, Business, Idea, Concept Quotes
• You appear to have a good project... we wish you well in this endeavor.
  David Packard # Idea, Ambition, Luck, Encouragement, Challenging, Difficult Quotes
• There is a lot more young Indian entrepreneurs can do if they are given the money. They have the idea, and I would just like to help them realise it.
  Kerry Packer # Entrepreneur, Money, Idea, Finance, Help Quotes
• You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.
  Larry Page # Company, Idea Quotes
• Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
  Norman Vincent Peale # Idea, Encouragement, Serious, Self Quotes
• Become a "learning organization". Shuck your arrogance - "if it isn't our idea, it can't be that good" - and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
  Tom Peters # Learning, Idea, Determined Quotes
• I use the word power broadly, because even more important than military and indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.
  Condoleezza Rice # Power, Important, Idea, Compassion, Hope Quotes
• If all we needed were ideas and positive thinking, then we all would have had ponies when we were kids and we would all be living our "dream life" now.
  Tony Robbins # Life, Idea, Positive, Thinking
• What we needed was an avalanche of ideas that kept us separate from the competition.
  Anita Roddick # Idea, Competition Quotes
• Each time there is a news story, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals.
  Nicolas Sarkozy # News, Ideas, Bad, Negative, Encouraging Quotes
• We are living in a dynamic age with multiple ideas and beliefs of correctness; this world is not deterministic and not still.
  Li Ka Shing # Life, Idea, Belief, World Quotes
• I used to be opposed to the idea of social entrepreneurship. I said let business be business, and philanthropy be philanthropy. Keep the two separate, don't mix it up, and this is what I did, and I did that rather successfully, but I now recognize that actually you do need to mix it up and I think there is room for social entrepreneurship.
  George Soros # Idea, Success, Entrepreneur, Philanthropy, Business Quotes
• I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets tending towards equilibrium.
  George Soros # Stock Market, Predict, Idea Quotes
• A political process is much less efficient than market, but we absolutely need it and this false theory has led to the idea that we don't we need to have any government intervention.
  George Soros # Politics, Stock Market, Idea, Government Quotes
• Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?
  Joseph Stalin # Ideas, Power, Smart Quotes
• A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.
  Brian Tracy # Thinking, Life, Ideas, Focus, Questions, Creative, Positive, Thinking Quotes
• I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
  Sam Walton # America, Idea, Improvement, Company Quotes
• We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.
  Jack Welch # Best, Idea, Management, Intelligent Quotes
• Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
  Jack Welch # Company, Idea, World, Selling, Best, Talent, Great Quotes
• You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
  Meg Whitman # Idea, Inspirational Quotes
• There aren't that many original ideas out there.
  Steve Wynn # Idea Quotes
• I think that it's always possible to have a great company if you have great ideas. I will say that since the web has become more commercialized, it also takes some good financial resources to build a great business, but as I always say, you have to have the idea first.
  Jerry Yang # Company, Great, Idea, Finance, Business, Encouragement Quotes
• Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky.
  Boris Yeltsin # Communism, Idea, Political Quotes
• It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me.
  Mark Zuckerberg # Money, Reason, Colleagues, Idea, Media, Information, Important Quotes
• And just from the 6 years of experience we've had building Facebook, which is a pretty complex system, you can't just wake up one day and decide you want to do this stuff. Even building a whole operating system is, like years and years of work. So that is what Google does.
  Mark Zuckerberg # Experience, Decisions, Facebook, Idea, Technology, Google, Business Quotes

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