Bob Weir Quotes

A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written.

The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around.

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.

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas.

Any leader who asks the right questions of the right people has the potential to discover and develop great ideas.

I don't have any ideas; my coaches have them. I just pass the ideas on and referee the arguments.

A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.

My job is to listen to ideas, maybe cook up a few of my own, and make decisions based on what's good for the shareholders and for the company.

Really, the moment you have any idea, the second thought that enters your mind after the original idea is, "What is this? Is it a book, is it a movie, is it a this, is it a that, is it a short story, is it a breakfast cereal?" Really, from that moment, your decision about what kind of thing it is then determines how it develops.

Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.

Every great thing starts with an idea, followed by a doubt and finally a resolve to abandon or pursue. Victory is a treacherous journey.

Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!

When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.

I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.

I have lots of ideas. Trouble is, most of them suck.

If anybody normally has a 45 minute conference call about something, I'm 15 minutes late and then I'm out 15 minutes before everybody else, and I cut to the key information and I move on. I learned that from my dad and guys like Jason Blum, who know how to do that.

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.

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.

Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier. Many ideas- probably most- will have to be discarded somewhere in the process of producing authenticated knowledge. Authentication is as important as the raw information itself, and the manner and speed of the authentication process can be crucial.

We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.

Progress is often just a good idea away.

You've got to listen but you've also got to lead.

Lets take the best of our ideas from Global Drucker Forum, and the best of our language, and then focus and clarify.