Ralph H. Baer Quotes

I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

I've always been an idea person, so I've always been great at having ideas, just not having the resources to make them happen.

I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

Going from idea to production is a huge hurdle. It took me a while to overcome it. It's basically all about self discipline, right?

The people who are changing our world are starting from an idea and bringing it all the way through to finished product with the power of their intellect, training, tools and available products.

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

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

I make so many ideas, it's impossible to finish every single one.

Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value.

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.

To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.

I like to come up with new ideas and see them grow.

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

As an entrepreneur, my problem was that I had too many ideas.

For me, the most important thing is to keep everything moving very fast, so when I have an idea, I can realize it and make it audible as soon as possible.

The biggest problem I see with early-stage entrepreneurs is they get the idea in their head, and they leave it in their head. And they begin embellishing it in their head, making it more ornate. They add on the second story to their dream house - then add the tennis court and the turrets and the gargoyles.

Ideas reflect the moment, and so you have to use them. If you store ideas, they wither.

In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas come, namely that part of ourselves that dreams. The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

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.

My job is to find great ideas, exaggerate them, and spread them like hell around the business with the speed of light...And to put resources in to support them. Keep finding ideas. That's the job of just about all of our CEOs.