Quotes About Ideas

The more I learn about the evolution of ideas, the more I have become aware that I am simply an unrepentant Old Whig-with the stress on the "old.

Success belongs to those who believe in their ideas.

The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

Understand that you need to sell you and your ideas in order to advance your career, gain more respect, and increase your success, influence and income.

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.

One of the secrets to success is ideas mixed with inspiration

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

Money is attracted to great ideas.

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

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

Ideas, more than money, are really the currency for success.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.

Don't read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.

On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.

M. Danglars, who had listened to all this preamble with imperturbable coolness, but without understanding a word, engaged as he was, like every man burdened with thoughts of the past, in seeking the thread of his own ideas in those of the speaker.

In politica, caro mio, lo sapete quanto me, non ci sono uomini, ma idee; non sentimenti, ma interessi; in politica non si uccide un uomo: si elimina un ostacolo, ecco tutto.

En política, querido mío, y vos lo sabéis tan bien como yo, no hay hombres, sino ideas; no sentimientos, sino intereses; en política no se mata a un hombre, sino se allana un obstáculo.

In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all

The king! I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas—no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.

Ideas never die, Sire, and, though they may slumber for a time, they wake up stronger than when they fell asleep.