Scott Belsky Quotes

• It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

  Scott Belsky

  Motivational, Business, Young Entrepreneurs

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• Creativity is, quite simply, a genuine interest combined with initiative.

  Scott Belsky

  Creativity, Initiative, Genuine

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• Success Corrupts and Limits Potential as Soon as You Start to Think You Could Do It Alone.

  Scott Belsky

  Thinking, Limits

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• When 99% of people doubt your idea, you're either gravely wrong or about to make history.

  Scott Belsky

  Inspirational, Success, Faith

  Twitter post from Aug 18, 2010

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• An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements.

  Scott Belsky

  Reality, Ideas, Broken

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• The fact that time is ticking should motivate you to take action on your ideas.

  Scott Belsky

  Ideas, Facts, Action

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• Perspiration is the best form of differentiation, especially in the creative world.

  Scott Belsky

  Creativity, Play, Creative

  Scott Belsky (2010). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.74, Penguin

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• When the next step is unclear, the best way to figure it out is to take action. Constant motion is the key to execution.

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  Keys, Next Steps, Way

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• Share ownership of your ideas. The more people who lie awake in bed thinking about your idea, the better.

  Scott Belsky

  Lying, Thinking About You, Ideas

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• The magic happens when you find the sweet spot where your genuine interests, skills, and opportunity intersect.

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  Sweet, Opportunity, Skills

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• To envision what will be, you must remove yourself from the constant concern for what already is.

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  Concern, Constant, Remove

  Scott Belsky (2011). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.132, Penguin UK

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• Nothing extraordinary is achieved through ordinary means.

  Scott Belsky

  Mean, Ordinary, Extraordinary

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• A labor of love always pays off.

  Scott Belsky

  Pay, Labor, Labor Of Love

  "The 'messy' way a former Goldman Sachs employee grew a $150 million startup, then turned half his employees into millionaires". Interview with Alyson Shontell, uk.businessinsider.com. March 19, 2017.

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• We will ultimately live in a perpetual data-driven talent edition. Everything you create will be measured and tracked by others through comments, share, and likes. Your work will come up on the radar of potential employers and clients, and the data will tell them if you are worth talking to or hiring.

  Scott Belsky

  Talking, Data, Likes

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• Most ideas never happen. It's an uphill battle against the status quo and our own tendencies.

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  Ideas, Battle, Tendencies

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• Everything in life should be approached as a project. Every project can be broken down into just three things: Action Steps, Backburner Items, and References.

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  Broken, Three, Steps

  Scott Belsky (2010). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.8, Penguin

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• All great inventions emerge from a long sequence of small sparks; the first idea often isn’t all that good, but thanks to collaboration it later sparks another idea, or it’s reinterpreted in an unexpected way. Collaboration brings small sparks together to generate breakthrough innovation.

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  Ideas, Long, Innovation

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• Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline.

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  Business, Discipline, Visionaries

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• While the tendency to generate ideas is rather natural, the path to making them happen is tumultuous.

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  Ideas, Path, Natural

  Scott Belsky (2010). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.9, Penguin

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• It's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that really matter.

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  Best Job, Matter, Saying No

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• Rather than Surrender to Bureaucracy, take it upon yourself to break it

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  Surrender, Break, Bureaucracy

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• The young and the ambitious share a common risk: appearing naive.

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  Risk, Ambitious, Common

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• The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic

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  Achievement, Vision, Definitions

  Scott Belsky (2010). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.149, Penguin

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• Today never feels like it will be history, but it will. And more likely than not, you will look back and realize that you should have known.

  Scott Belsky

  Should Have, Looks, Today

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• Overcome the stigma of self-marketing.

  Scott Belsky

  Self, Marketing, Overcoming

  Scott Belsky (2010). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.15, Penguin

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