S Ideas Quotes

Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea.

Why now, why is this the perfect time for this particular idea, and to start this particular company?

If you look at successful pivots, they almost always are a pivot into something that the founder wanted. Not a random made up idea.

Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere.

You want an idea about what you can say. I know it sounds like a bad idea but here's specifically why its actually a great one. You want to sound crazy but you want to ask to be right.

There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.

It's become popular in recent years to say that the idea doesn't matter.

I myself used to believe ideas didn't matter that much, but I'm very sure that's wrong now.

Remember that the idea will expand, and become more ambitious as you go.

The idea should come first, the startup should come second.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.

A related advantage of mission oriented ideas, is that you yourself will be dedicated to them.

You want an idea that not many other people are working on, and it's okay if it doesn't sound big at first.

We hear again and again from founders, that they wish they had waited to start a startup until they came up with an idea they really loved.

You think you have this great idea that everyone's going to come join, but that's not how it works.

There are exceptions of course, but most companies start with a great idea - not a pivot.

... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.

You want an idea that turns into a monopoly. But you can't get a monopoly, in a big market right away; too much competition for that.

I always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins.

The brain is like a TV set; when it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.

President Herbert Hoover returned his salary to the government. His idea caught on, and now we're all doing it.

People who believe in painting... realize there is something greater than just coming up with an idea, and executing it.

You get to go and play with the big boys, it's a very privileged thing for us to do. So I'm sure we have more ideas than what I actually have time for.

The more visionary the idea, the more people it leaves behind.

I'm often daydreaming and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

I'm a songwriter. I've got ideas in the closet that just didn't work out with my band, that I think, "This is a great idea, it's just the wrong guys."

This was a time of great intellectual excitement for me. Both college and law school opened up new worlds of ideas.

There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.

Wretched un-idea'd girls.

It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain; the exactest vigilance and caution can never maintain a single day of unmingled innocence.

There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.

As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.

Battles are won through the ability of men to express concrete ideas in clear and unmistakable language.

The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.

How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.

I'm a message maker. I create products and ideas that help people connect one heart at a time.

The Kumars... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea I was slightly surprised that no one else had.

When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.

I want people to consider the idea that the only way of moving forward with their lives is to revisit and confront their issues and their pasts.

I liked the idea of being an actress, but thought better of it.

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

I know I have to stop. We all have to stop. Funny how knowing something's a bad idea doesn't make a difference.

My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

How do you even begin to return to someone, much less convince them to do the same for you? I had no idea. More than ever, though, right then I had to believe the answer would just come to me.

But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge

I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We're not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about it.