Business Ideas Quotes

• A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Business, Hard Work, Starting Up

  "Mina Bekheet - Cofounder of Oxford Biotech". Enterprising Oxford interview, www.eship.ox.ac.uk.

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

  Scott Belsky

  Motivational, Business, Young Entrepreneurs

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.

  Nick Woodman

  Business, Thinking, Ideas

  "GoPro Founder Nick Woodman: 'I Am Doing This'". Interview with Sam Moulton, www.outsideonline.com. September 18, 2013.

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• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Enthusiasm For Life

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons

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• A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  "Mansfield News Journal" Newspaper, August 3, 1965.

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• Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

  Anita Roddick

  Success, Business, Thinking

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• Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Courage, Clever

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• A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Fall, Creativity

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.156, Best Books on

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

  Howard Aiken

  Business, Science, Office Work

  "A Computer Science Reader : Selections from Abacus" by Eric A. Weiss, (p. 404), 1988.

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• There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

  Michael Eisner

  Ideas, Innovation, Growth

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• The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Motivational, Success, Business

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• The most exciting business ideas fit on the back of an airplane napkin.

  Carmine Gallo

  Airplane, Ideas, Napkins

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• The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.

  Henry Ford

  Air, Ideas, Want

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• You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.

  Larry Page

  Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Ideas

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• The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Business, Good Life, Lying

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• My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

  Ted Turner

  Success, Jobs, Business

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• Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Motivation, Life And Love, Creativity

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.98, David R. Godine Publisher

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• In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Leadership, Perseverance, Business

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• To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, Business, Technology

  "Speaking Out: Apple's and Pixar's Steve Jobs". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• You are surrounded by simple, obvious solutions that can dramatically increase your income, power, influence and success. The problem is, you just don't see them.

  Jay Abraham

  Success, Business, Simple

  Jay Abraham (2000). “Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition”, p.8, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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