B. C. Forbes Quotes

A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.

If you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately...it's everything.

I know it's easy to imagine, But it's easier to just do, See, if you can't do what you imagine, then what is imagination to you?

There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.

There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.

I've known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn't get the idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They thought that their ideas would somehow take off by themselves, or that just coming up with an idea was enough. Let me tell you something - it's not enough. It will never be enough. You have to put the idea into action. If you don't have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.

Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run.

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

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

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against 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 aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

The more things you do, the more you can do.

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

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

The best ideas are useless unless carried out.

Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. The men who have won fame and fortune through having an idea are those who devoted every ounce of their strength and every dollar they could muster to putting it into operation. Ford had a big idea, but he had to sweat and suffer and sacrifice to make it work.

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

Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.

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

Ideas are useless unless used.

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.