Adam Grant Quotes

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

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.

I admire people who are creative.

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.

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

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

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.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

I love creative people.

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

I have fantastic ideas.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

You have to create something from nothing.

Genius is initiative on fire.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.

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

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

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.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.