Orison Swett Marden Quotes

The hero is the one with ideas.

Progress is often just a good idea away.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Big ideas come from forward thinking people who challenge the norm, think outside the box, and invent the world they see inside rather than submitting to the limitations of current dilemmas

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

Any idea can be a great idea if you think differently, dream big and commit to seeing it realized

One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

Like all pioneers I have labored more in faith and hope.

Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

Leaders must go ahead even when moving ahead is controversial. You must be ahead of time, because if you want to represent the status quo, what do you need leaders for?

If I could be generous and move forward and spread my feelers business-wise and also creatively, that's the best position to put myself in.

I've always been driven, and I like the creative aspect of figuring things out.

Sometimes, you're before your time with ideas, and you have to accept that you can't know.

Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!

Now, ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything. The men who have won fame and fortune through having an idea are those who devoted every ounce of their strength and every dollar they could muster to putting it into operation. Ford had a big idea, but he had to sweat and suffer and sacrifice to make it work.

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

If you've got a good idea and you're willing to do whatever it takes to pursue it, keep your head up and eyes open because you don't know when opportunity will come knocking.

Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life.

Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.