idea adoption Quotes

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.

We're just delighted that management has come around to my way of thinking.

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.

One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.

The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.

The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

Where can we take no the product, but the idea?

The question is, once you have this idea, is this enough? Is it something people would actually switch just to have?

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

Ideas really do matter. But in any organization a good idea will only go so far unless its proponents are willing to fight the political games to get the idea adopted.

Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.

When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

There's people who actually have a whole science devoted to what makes a sticky meme and that idea of that question of why some ideas about how civilizations work catch on and others don't.

People adopt ideas when social, personal and financial trends intersect-a confluence that may seem random but usually happens 'by design.

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go.

The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.

If you saw a better idea or business anywhere in the world, and you could reapply it legally and ethically and with attribution, you were supposed to do that. And I used that learning in building Cold Stone.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The other is that it should fit in with the temper of the age. If it does not, even a good idea may well be passed by.