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“Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.”

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Book:Free Prize Inside: How to Make a Purple Cow

Source: Free Prize Inside: How to Make a Purple Cow

“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.”

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Author:Dee Hock

“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.”

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Author:Sergey Brin

“If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.”

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Author:Grace Hopper

“In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.”

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Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.”

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Author:George Nelson

“Business is not financial science, it's about trading.. buying and selling. It's about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it.”

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Author:Anita Roddick

“Emotion. Passion. Ideas. Simplicity. These are the big things that big business needs from its creative agencies. No one else is going to provide these essential elements for business.”

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Author:Kevin Roberts

“There will be an enduring role for the 'soft' side of planning. The piece that deals with meaning, identity and ideas. This is the slightly intangible piece that creative agencies hold at their heart.”

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Author:John Woodward

“The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.”

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Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.”

“I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.”

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Book:But Will it Sell?

Source: But Will it Sell?

“That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe or hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution, and that our votes will be counted.”

Source: An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer

“It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.”

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Author:Jerry Garcia

“The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as each faith tries to protect its doctrines and institution instead of nurturing the evolution of consciousness. If one is not careful to distinguish the genuine insights of a religion from its irrelevant accretions, one can go through life following an inappropriate moral compass.”

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

“SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. This is a good one, he says enthusiastically. I'm in it, and I think you should be, too.”

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Author:Warren Buffett