Delphine Arnault Quotes

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

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.

An idea on paper to a reality in large part.

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.

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

You can have outlandish ideas, but if you don't work at them, they just remain outlandish ideas. Anyone can have an idea. Work is transformative.

Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.

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

There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.

Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!

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

Ideas are like dreams; they will disappear unless we record them. Write a book, a blog, build a company, anything that makes the ideas real.

Everyone has an idea, but it’s taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.

I've known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn't get the idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They thought that their ideas would somehow take off by themselves, or that just coming up with an idea was enough. Let me tell you something - it's not enough. It will never be enough. You have to put the idea into action. If you don't have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top of your desk or inside your head and go nowhere.

They spent days, nights, weeks, and years talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice.

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.

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.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

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

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

As you get out and try to do things, you always find that in order to make an idea a reality, it goes through some changes. It doesn't always come out exactly like you envisioned it.

The world is full of people who say, 'But I had that idea first,' but did they do anything about it? Nope, they sat on their bum dreaming.