Jared Polis Quotes

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

It's really important that policy be properly designed. It's not enough just to.. .get angry over a subject.

The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.

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.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

We hope that there will be better policy-making and hope to see projects implemented. We have lots of information that can be used for the implementation of projects.

All policy is targeted in one way or another.

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

I prefer to work at the policy level, on trying to fix flawed government policies.

You have to have a sense of what it looks like, not from the point of view of the policymaker but from the point of view of those who are at the receiving end of your policies.

Pitching a concept well is certainly important, but ultimately you have to build it.

There is an old maxim which states that good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment. I think something similar can be said of government policy, to wit: Good policy comes from experience, and experience comes from poor policy.

A good idea is not enough. It must be the fit of a particular idea for a particular entrepreneur and, ideally, unfair advantages in why said particular entrepreneur is going to address said particular idea.

I think the policies, for the most part, that [Hillary Clinton] will put in place are not going to make positive changes. There'll be more status quo. She'll certainly be good for some groups of people. Whatever.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

Strategies for research and policy development must simultaneously address people's needs, the capacity of programs to provide good quality of care, and the range of technological options available.

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

I wanted to work on policy because I think it really makes a difference.

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

Every plausible policy must be followed by the question 'And then what?'

The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more.

There are a lot of policies that don't work out that are nevertheless worth doing.

You never know exactly how new policies are going to work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try them.

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