Shawn Fanning Quotes

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

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

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

A lot of people in the technology space love the idea of a solving a problem.

The best people in this industry [technology] are the people who are trying to solve big problems.

Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

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

The most important question of the 21st century is not what or how much, it is 'How?' How do you propose to turn your good ideas into positive changes in other people's lives? You must be the 'how generation.'

The problem isn't so much finding good ideas (there is no shortage) as embedding the ones we have into everyday practice.

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.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

If you have a truly big idea, the wrong technique won't kill it. And if you don't have a big idea, the right technique won't help you

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.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.

With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics, we need more good ideas. We don't need more point scoring, we need more problem solving.

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

Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle

Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this.

Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas

I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them.