Shai Agassi Quotes

That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

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

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.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. It's what you do with them that counts.

My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real. The more vividly you consider how you want your world to be, the more real and effective tools you will have for making it so.

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

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

I don't really do without any plans. If somebody is trying to do something, you must have plans.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Creation's gold mine is in you. The key is deliberate intention. Whatever your dream may be at this moment, identify it. If you cannot define your desire, it can never become a reality.

I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

Dreams grow holy put in action.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

A dream will not become an innovation if there is no realization.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

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.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!

Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.

I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.

Having an eye is one thing, but you have to be able to execute.