Will Rogers Quotes

You can never discard too many bad ideas.

Sometimes even hearing a bad idea is a great way to get to a good idea.

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

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

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

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

It's the execution that matters, never the idea.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

It all starts with a great idea and teamwork.

Intellectual work is an act of creation. It is as if the mental image that is studied over a period of time were to sprout appendages like an ameba—outgrowths that extend in all directions while avoiding one obstacle after another—before interdigitating with related ideas.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

If you have several ideas that all seem pretty good, work on the one that you think about, when you're not trying to think about work.

The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

Sometimes it's easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don't have the idea.

Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.

Great execution towards a terrible idea will get you nowhere.

I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.

The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. Sometimes the latter is better.