Ciputra Quotes

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!

It's not the dreaming, it's the doing.

All of the great ideas, without action, become stale and useless. The key to turning dreams into reality is action. People who have great ideas are a dime a dozen. People who act on their dreams and ideas are the select few, but they are the ones who gain the wealth, wealth and wisdom that is available. Someone will act today. Let it be you.

Those who say, 'It can't be done,' are usually interrupted by others doing it.

The world is full of people who say, 'But I had that idea first,' but did they do anything about it? Nope, they sat on their bum dreaming.

Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.

I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.

Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams.

You can have outlandish ideas, but if you don't work at them, they just remain outlandish ideas. Anyone can have an idea. Work is transformative.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. It's what you do with them that counts.

Action is what separates the do-ers from the dreamers.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.

Ditch the dream and be a doer.

It’s not enough to wish, it’s not enough to dream, it’s not enough to promise. We must do.

It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.

The dream has to be translated into reality.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

Without the doing, the dreaming is useless.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

The secret of getting things done is to act!