Escaping the old
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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

Implement
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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)

Learning from Keynes
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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)

Invent
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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)

Realize ideas
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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”)

Inspiration
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Inspiration is contagious.

Ryan Boutin – Canadian entrepreneur and marketer, CEO Zeal Media Inc. (b. 1976)

Check
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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

Go ahead and do it
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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

New ideas
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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

Ideas
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Ideas attract even more ideas!

Dr. René Siegl – Austrian manager (b. 1959), Quotations book 2017

Conflicts
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Treat conflicts always as a clash of ideas, not of people.

Prof. Robert Kegan – American developmental psychologist and author (b. 1946), Quotations book 2016

Talent
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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

Inspiration
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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

Vision
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Capital isn’t scarce, vision is.

Michael Milken – American financer, benefactor and innovator in medical science (b. 1946)

Ideas
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If I knew what my five best ideas were, that is all i would own.

Jean-Marie Eveillard – French stox investor (*1940)

Let go
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Creativity requires the courage to tolerate insecurity.

attributed to Erich Fromm – German-born American psychoanalyst (1900-1980), Quotations book 2013

Ideas
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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

What instead of how
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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

Simplify
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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
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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

Imagination
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.

Albert Einstein – German physicist, Nobel Prize in physics 1921 (1879-1955), Quotations book 2011

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

attributed to Thomas Alva Edison – American inventor (1847-1931)

Growth
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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)

Good theories
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I like good theories. They work better.

often falsely attributed to Albert Einstein

Resources
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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

Possibilities
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There are more possibilities in the universe than one can imagine.

chosen by Sir John Marks Templeton – British value investor and philanthropist (1912-2008)

Opportunities
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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)

Creave thinking
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To cease to think creatively is but little different from ceasing to live.

Benjamin Franklin – American politician, writer and scientist (1706-1790)

Concentration
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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

New ideas
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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

Planning
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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

Ideas
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It’s not how many ideas you have. It’s how many you make happen.

Wisdom – Quotations book 2004

Consequences

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Because Ideas have consequences

Slogan of the Hillsdale Academy – The Hillsdale Academy is an American School in Michigan, Quotations book 2003