Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.
Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.
It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.
My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.
The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no 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.
After years of telling corporate citizens to 'trust the system,' many companies must relearn instead to trust their people - and encourage their people to use neglected creative capacities in order to tap the most potent economic stimulus of all: idea power.
There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.
It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.
Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.
It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.
The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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