Ideas

"It’s important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it’s kind of a romantic notion that you’re just going to have this one brilliant idea and then everything is going to be great. But the fact is that coming up with an idea is the least important part of creating something great. It has to be the right idea and have good taste, but the execution and delivery are what’s key."

"If its a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission."

"Dont worry about people stealing an idea. If its original, you will have to ram it down their throats."

"The key to every man is his thought…. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own."

"Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas."

"A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others."

"The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity."

"... the best way to think about investments is to be in a room with no one else and just think. And if that doesnt work — nothing else is going to work. ... what you are looking for is some way to get one good idea a year ... and then ride it to its full potential. ... Wall Street makes its money on activity — you make your money on inactivity."

"That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one,"

"People dont understand this: Ideas are important, but theyre not essential. Whats essential and important is the execution of the idea. Everyone has had the experience of seeing a movie and saying, "Hey! That was my idea!" Well, it doesnt mean anything that you had that idea. Theres no such thing as an original concept. Whats original is the way you re-use ancient concepts."

"There are no new ideas, just new ways of giving those ideas we cherish breath and power in our own living."

"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea."