Business Ideas Quotes:

A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

- Nolan Bushnell

source: "Mina Bekheet - Cofounder of Oxford Biotech". Enterprising Oxford interview, www.eship.ox.ac.uk.

topic: Ideas, People, Entrepreneur, Amazing People, Successful Leaders

It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.

- Scott Belsky

topic: Business, Ideas, Young Entrepreneurs, Inspirational And Innovation, Make It Happen

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Life's Too Short, Life Is Simple

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.

- Nick Woodman

source: "GoPro Founder Nick Woodman: 'I Am Doing This'". Interview with Sam Moulton, www.outsideonline.com. September 18, 2013.

topic: Business, Thinking, Ideas, Motivational Business, Business Ideas

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

- Bill Gates

topic: Leadership, Motivation, Business, Young Entrepreneurs, Business Life

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

- Mary Kay Ash

topic: Inspirational, Success, Ideas, Mediocre Minds, Believe In Your Dreams

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Success, Graduation, Young Entrepreneurs, Make You Think Twice

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

- Anita Roddick

topic: Business, Thinking, Decision, Business Woman, Secret To Success

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Motivational, Courage, Clever, Innovation And Business, Inspirational Winning

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Life, Fall, Patriotic, Inspiration And Creativity, Modern Warfare

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Past, Way, Study, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

- Alan Kay

topic: Worry, Way, Live By, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

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

- Howard Aiken

topic: Life And Love, Business, Congratulations, Daily Work, Innovation And Business

There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

- Michael Eisner

topic: Ideas, Innovation, Innovative Ideas, Continuous Learning, Kaizen

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

- Thomas J. Watson

topic: Motivational, Success, Business, Motivational Management, Watson

The most exciting business ideas fit on the back of an airplane napkin.

- Carmine Gallo

topic: Airplane, Ideas, Napkins, Business Ideas

The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.

- Henry Ford

topic: Air, Ideas, Want, Inspire Creativity, Power Of Ideas

You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.

- Larry Page

topic: Business, Ideas, Needs, Young Entrepreneurs, Business Ideas

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Business, Good Life, Lying, Challenges In Business, Business Ideas

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

- Ted Turner

topic: Jobs, Business, Son, Job Opportunities, Daily Business

Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Ideas, Innovation, Done, Innovation And Business, Inspirational And Innovation

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Leadership, Perseverance, Business, Dedication And Perseverance, Commitment In Business

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Success, Business, Technology, Interesting Ideas, Original Ideas

You are surrounded by simple, obvious solutions that can dramatically increase your income, power, influence and success. The problem is, you just don't see them.

- Jay Abraham

source: Jay Abraham (2000). “Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition”, p.8, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

topic: Simple, Income, Problem, Business Ideas

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Running, Business Life, Inspirational Winning

You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.

- Medgar Evers

topic: Men, Ideas, Power Of Ideas, Business Ideas

If you get into entrepreneurshi p driven by profit, you are a lot more likely to fail. The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people’s lives, not just their own bank balances. The desire to change things for the better is the motivation for taking risks and pursuing seemingly impossible business ideas.

- Richard Branson

topic: Motivation, Ideas, Differences, Desire To Change, Business Ideas

There are millions of business ideas out there but only a tiny percentage of businesses succeed.

- Tony Robbins

source: Source: www.psychologytoday.com

topic: Ideas, Tiny, Succeed, Business Ideas

While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues… In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.

- Daymond John

topic: Struggle, Issues, Ideas, Payroll, Financial Literacy

I have a few business ideas (that I'm going to advertise in High Times, amongst other places), and one of them is a service in which I offer to eat and describe pork to kosher people.

- David Cross

source: "David Cross: The Pride Is Back". TV Special, September 18, 1999.

topic: Funny, Humor, Ideas, Kosher, Business Ideas

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

- Mark Burnett

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Beer, Thinking, Ideas, Business Ideas