Innovative Idea Quotes

'The Kumars'... played on five continents, and even when I came up with the idea, I was slightly surprised that no one else had.

Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don't do it, it won't get done.

They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

I wanted to drop three albums in a year because no one had done it. It was bold, unheard of.

The most powerful thing in the world is an idea.

I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.

'Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.

Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.

Someday, you need to build a business that's difficult to replicate. This is an important part of a good idea.

You know you've have a good idea when you're lying awake at night going 'someone else is going to take it, I just know it!'

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

By the time people came to realize that free, Web-based email was indeed a hot idea, Hotmail was adding 1 million new subscribers a month.

There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

If it's a worthwhile project, no matter where it's created, it'll be competitive anywhere.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow. It could be with art, a sculpture, music or even in science. The difference, however, between scientific creativity and any other kind of creativity, is that no matter how long you wait, no one else will ever compose "Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" except for Beethoven. No matter what you do, no one else will paint Van Gogh's "Starry Night." Only Van Gogh could do that because it came from his creativity.

It could be interesting doing something with Kanye.

I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books.

I didn't have that when I invented MyPillow. I didn't have a safety net.

My biggest mistake was when I started up easyEverything, a chain of Internet cafes. The idea that people would go to a shop to use a computer was revolutionary in 1999. It worked for a while, but cheap technology almost killed it. One silver lining of the problems I faced was that it gave me experience of turnarounds.

What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it.

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?