David Sarnoff Quotes

I like to come up with new ideas and see them grow.

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.

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

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

Anyone can dream up great ideas, but an idea is nothing until it's realized, be it as a website, a physical product, an app, or a user interface.

Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution.

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.

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.

We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

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

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

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.

Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.

The moment always comes when, having collected one's ideas, certain images, an intuition of a certain kind of development- whether psychological or material- one must pass on to the actual realization.

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

Innovation requires articulation.

What is often lacking is not creativity in the idea-creating sense but innovation in the action-producing sense, i.e. putting ideas to work.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas.

The value of a good idea is in using it.

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

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.

To make an idea become a reality is a process that fascinates me; otherwise it stays just an idea.