Creave thinking
To cease to think creatively is but little different from ceasing to live.
Benjamin Franklin – American politician, writer and scientist (1706-1790)
Creave thinking/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Tanja Titz
To cease to think creatively is but little different from ceasing to live.
Benjamin Franklin – American politician, writer and scientist (1706-1790)
Check/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
I check every offer. It could be the offer of my life.
attributed to Henry Ford – American engineer and industrialist (1863-1947), Quotations book 2018
Imagination/in All Quotes, Ideas /by sysadmin
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.
Albert Einstein – German physicist, Nobel Prize in physics 1921 (1879-1955), Quotations book 2011
What instead of how/in Achievement, All Quotes, Ideas /by sysadmin
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George Smith Patton – American general (1885-1945), Quotations book 2013
New ideas/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas.
I’m frightened of the old ones.
John Cage – American composer, musical theorist and writer (1912-1992), from an interview with Richard Kostelanetz, published in “Conversing with Cage” (1988), Quotations book 2017
Growth/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. – American physician and writer (1809-1894), from “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table”, Capitel 11 (1858)
Ideas/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Tanja Titz
It’s not how many ideas you have. It’s how many you make happen.
Wisdom – Quotations book 2004
Implement/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.
Guy Kawasaki – American company founder, venture capitalist, author and marketing evangelist (b. 1954), in “The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything” (2004)
Innovation/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
Innovation happens at the intersections.
Emilie Wapnick – Canadian career coach and author (b. 1984), in a post at “Puttylike.com” (October 6th, 2010)
Planning/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Tanja Titz
It’s not the plan that is important, it is the planning.
Dr. Graeme Edwards – Australian specialist in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Quotations book 2004
Resources/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
Isreael’s lack of natural resources, such as oil, is actually a benefit, because it has required us to be innovative and to engage in hard work.
Stef Wertheimer – Israeli entrepreneur, founder of ISCAR (b. 1926), Quotations book 2009
Inspiration/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
Inspiration is contagious.
Ryan Boutin – Canadian entrepreneur and marketer, CEO Zeal Media Inc. (b. 1976)
Big/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
Big results require big ideas.
Mike Clum American entrepreneur (b. 1993)
Good theories/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
I like good theories. They work better.
often falsely attributed to Albert Einstein
Possibilities/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
There are more possibilities in the universe than one can imagine.
chosen by Sir John Marks Templeton – value investor and philanthropist (1912-2008)
Bold/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
But at the heart of his personality was the boldness of his ideas.
Zalman didn’t do little things. Zalman was here to change the world.
Roger Hertog – American businessman, financier, and philanthropist, co-founder of Sanford C. Bernstein & Company (b. 1941), in his obituary on Zalman Chaim Bernstein (born Sanford Bernstein, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, 1926-1999)
Invent/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
Sometimes it’s good to have a screw loose, it gives your ideas more free play.
Prof. Dr. Achim Kampker – German engineer and company founder: StreetScooter GmbH (b. 1975)
Go ahead and do it/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
Grace B. M. Hopper – American compoter pioneer, member of the US Navy (1906-1992), Quotations book 2017
Learning from Keynes/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
Keynes identified my problem: “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas but in escaping from the old ones.”
Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), in his letter to Berkshire Shareholders (1983)
Because Ideas have consequences
Slogan of the Hillsdale Academy – The Hillsdale Academy is an American School in Michigan, Quotations book 2003
Simplify/in All Quotes, Ideas, Success /by sysadmin
Ideas that have great results are always simple ones.
Leo N. Tolstoy – Russian writer (1828-1910), from “War and peace” (1869), Quotations book 2012
Business model/in All Quotes, Ideas /by sysadmin
Our business model derives from our ideas, not the money.
David de Rothschild – French banker, Rothschild & Cie. (b. 1942), on the question, how the Rothschild bank managed tnot to be involved into the financial markets turbulences, Quotations book 2012
Talent/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters and rebels.
David Ogilvy – legendary British advertising executive and entrepreneur (1911-1999), from “Confessions of an Advertising Man” (1971), Quotations book 2015
Vision/in All Quotes, Ideas /by sysadmin
Capital isn’t scarce, vision is.
Michael Milken – American financer, benefactor and innovator in medical science (b. 1946)
Opportunities/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
You do things when the opportunities get along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of Ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.
Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930)
Big ideas/in All Quotes, Brochure 2021, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
Jeffrey P. “Jeff” Bezos – American company founder: Amazon (b. 1964), from an interview with the “Washington Post” (September 3rd, 2013), Quotations book 2021
Test, test, test/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.
Jeffrey P. “Jeff” Bezos – American company founder: Amazon (b. 1964)
Grab/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
I paid no attention to the territorial boundaries of academic disciplines and I just grabbed all the big ideas that I could.
Charlie Munger – Vice Chairman Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1924), Quotations book 2022
Concentration/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Tanja Titz
It’s better to do a lot of work on one idea, than do some work on a lot of ideas.
Mike Onghai – American investor (b. 1970), Quotations book 2007
Inspiration/in All Quotes, Ideas /by sysadmin
When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
attributed to Dr. Sigmund Freud – Austrian neurologist, psychologist and religion critic, founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939), Quotations book 2016
Conflicts/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
Treat conflicts always as a clash of ideas, not of people.
Prof. Robert Kegan – American developmental psychologist and author (b. 1946), Quotations book 2016
Ideas/in All Quotes, Ideas /by sysadmin
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.
Lee Iacocca – American entrepreneur, savior of Chrysler (1924-2019), Quotations book 2013
Ideas/in All Quotes, Ideas /by sysadmin
If I knew what my five best ideas were, that is all i would own.
Jean-Marie Eveillard – French stox investor (*1940)
Ideas/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
Ideas attract even more ideas!
Dr. René Siegl – Austrian manager (b. 1959), Quotations book 2017
Let go/in All Quotes, Ideas /by sysadmin
Creativity requires the courage to tolerate insecurity.
attributed to Erich Fromm – German-born American psychoanalyst (1900-1980), Quotations book 2013
Escaping the old/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.
John Maynard Keynes – British economist and investor (1883-1946), from “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money” (1936), Quotations book 2020
Idea/in All Quotes, Ideas /by sysadmin
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
attributed to Thomas Alva Edison – American inventor (1847-1931)
Realize ideas/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Christoph Niemann
Ideas are worthless until you get them out of your head to see what they can do.
Tanner Christensen – American product designer, author, artist and entrepreneur (“Creative Something”)
New ideas/in All Quotes, Ideas /by Tanja Titz
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain – born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American writer (1835-1910), Quotations book 2006
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