I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. John Cage

• ideas
• innovation

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. Abraham Lincoln

• speech
• words
• ideas
• oratory

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. Ken Hakuta

• money
• ideas

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. J. Arthur Thomson

• enthusiasm
• ideas

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference. Nolan Bushnell

• actions
• ideas

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. Oliver Wendell Holmes

• ideas

The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it and put it into action –fast. Jack Welch

• ideas

Ideas are funny things; they don't work unless you do. Lou Holtz

• ideas

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. Napoleon Hill

• ideas
• achievement

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Hyman Rickover

• gossip
• ideas
• mind
• intelligence

Ideas must work though the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• action
• ideas

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless. Mary Kay Ash

• ideas

Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything. Scott Adams

• ideas
• execution

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I don't want to hear ideas. I just want to see the execution. Derek Sivers

• ideas
• business
• execution

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Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable. Milton Friedman

• ideas
• crisis

Ideas are just a multiplier of execution. Derek Sivers

• ideas
• execution

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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes

• mind
• ideas

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. Howard Aiken

• ideas

Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction. Jack Donovan

• action
• ideas
• thought

If you want to have good ideas, you must have many ideas. Linus Pauling

• ideas