John Berry Quotes

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

You can have X's and O's, you can have talent, but if you don't have a vision, it won't work.

I choose work that is hard to pull off. And it's scary how things can go wrong. But if there's no risk involved, it's not challenging. A good idea will survive any process.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare.

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

Don't wait for someone to tell you what to do. Develop an innovative solution and work as a team to make it happen.

When you have a good idea, the money flows.

A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.

The good ideas will survive.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

I'll practice as good as I can, but I know that I play even better, with the qualities I have - leadership, my ability to make something happen in games, winning.

Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.

We all have ambitions, but only the few achieve. A man thinks of a good thing and says: 'Now if I only had the money I'd put that through.' The word 'if' was a dent in his courage. With character fully established, his plan well thought out, he had only to go to those in command of capital and it would have been forthcoming.

As a leader, these attributes - confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense - are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

I firmly believe that success lies in the combination of both talent and business savvy, and that the magic comes through partnership between both.

Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.