The entire point and philosophy behind my consulting approach is that amazing things can happen through the ideas
possessed by the talent within an organization.
The challenge is in drawing those ideas out and successfully executing on them.
From the smart people in the room around the whiteboard hashing through the business problems of the moment,
to the staffers in the seminar learning, to the new clients and partners getting excited about the possibilities
of things to come... business happens when ideas are given life in the minds and hands of people eager to make
them reality.
This page gathers together the various quotes - some fun, some thoughtful - on "ideas" which are used throughout
the site. Enjoy.
"The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them."
Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
"He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met."
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
"An idea is salvation by imagination."
Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
"College isn't the place to go for ideas."
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."
Howard Aiken (1900 - 1973)
"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."
John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968)
"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle."
Ken Hakuta
"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled."
Sir Barnett Cocks (1907 - 1989)