“Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.”
– Napoleon Hill

“All new ideas come with flaws, but we should encourage people to try to understand the intent behind the idea. If we take a new idea as a beginning point and then focus on the possibilities it presents, we can better see how to adjust those elements that need improvement.”
– Andrew Papageorge, in GoInnovate!

“The idea we’re looking for is never beyond our reach.”
– Earl Nightingale

“Throwing away ideas too soon is like opening a package of flower seeds and then throwing them away because they’re not pretty.”
– Arthur (Andy) VanGundy

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
– John Steinbeck

“The vast majority of new ideas are not original but are adapted from something else. Most great ideas are really combinations of other ideas.”
– Paul Sloane, in ‘The Leader’s Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills’

“What’s missing isn’t the ideas… it’s the will to execute them.”
– Seth Godin

“Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.”
– Nolan Bushnell

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
– Albert Einstein

“New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody’s castle roof perforated.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“New to the world ideas rarely come fully formed in a single bolt from the blue. They happen with round after round of refining and recombining ideas.”
– Marco Marsan, from ‘Think Naked’

“The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.”
– Linus Pauling