Sam Walton Quotes

There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.

It's a must to continually stay alert and aware because ideas come from everywhere. And beyond relying on your fine-tuned radar to pick up on the next inspiration, consider seeking mentors.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

You can never discard too many bad ideas.

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second, you have to have a sort of sixth sense-the result of judgment and experience-which ideas are worth following up. I seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and I also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that I should just ignore, and the good ones, that I'd better follow up.

Progress is often just a good idea away.

Flood your life with ideas from many sources. Creativity needs to be exercised like a muscle. If you don't use it, you'll lose it!

Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere

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

You'll never know how close you are to a million-dollar idea unless you're willing to listen.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

If you’re constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea.

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.

Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens.But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction.

Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage this, you need all the ideas you can get.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.