Sergey Brin Quotes

The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

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.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.

Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

I don't think people understand how much hard work innovation is. That it's not just getting an idea. You really have to cross your T's and dot your I's long before you ever start on the project. I don't think people perceive that about me. I work hard.

What makes success is not your genius idea, but the execution and follow-through around it

Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special. But the fact is, we're all creative. We come up with weird and interesting ideas all the time. The biggest difference between 'creators' isn't their imagination - it's how hard they work. Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.

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.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

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

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

A great idea is not enough.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

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.

At Pixar, 'Wall-E' was our ninth film, and they've all been successes - more than that, they've all really touched people. Everybody wonders, 'How do you do it?' Well, how do you not do it? You just work hard.

Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.

The best ideas are useless unless carried out.

I had ideas. A lot were good, but in many ways, I had no idea or experience about how to carry them out.