Ideas Quotes and Sayings

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

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Sydney J. Harris

Some people entertain ideas; others put them to work.
Anonymous

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.
Ralph Bunche

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.
Alexander Wilson

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
Soren Kierkegaard

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.
Irvine Robbins

I don’t let myself get carried away by my own ideas - I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.
Gustav Mahler

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
Lady Bird Johnson

I am aware that success is more than a good idea. It is timing too.
Anita Roddick

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mankind is not a circle with a single centre but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Victor Hugo

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
Karl Marx

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
C. O. Jackson

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
Murray Kempton

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.
Anthony D’Angelo

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
Christian Nevell Bovee

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
David H Comins

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

Man’s fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
Morris L. Ernst

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
Benedict Spinoza

The material universe exists only in the mind.
Jonathan Edwards

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.
Johann von Goethe

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
Marianne Williamson

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
Buckminster Fuller

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Albert Einstein

It’s a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.
Anonymous

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
José Marti