Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

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

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.

Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.

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

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.

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

Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.

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.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

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.

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

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.

As Hollywood knows, I'm full of ideas.

You have a lot of ideas …. I want them so I can test them.

A lot of the ideas for solving many of our problems are already in place, but ideas don’t travel.

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

Having an idea is easy, courting one can be difficult.

The people who are changing our world are starting from an idea and bringing it all the way through to finished product with the power of their intellect, training, tools and available products.

Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.

If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.

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

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

If I have an idea in my head, within no time it's into the computer, it may take more time to make it sound right, but that's the only issue.

Never leave the site of a strong idea without doing something to execute around it.