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Good Ideas Quotes
On where real ideas begin.
These quotes trace good ideas back to their unglamorous origins - ordinary people rather than boardrooms, fringe experiments that later become mainstream practice.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
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Crowdsourced funding via cryptocurrencies is a viable practice. A lot of good ideas and innovative companies are coming out of it. This segment is creating thousands of jobs and companies all over the world.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.
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BBC TV gets hold of an idea and beats it to death until we're all heartily sick of it. They buy people without thinking what they're going to do with them. It's the wrong way around. What they should be doing is employing really good ideas people to come up with good ideas.
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What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.
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There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.
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There are a lot of good ideas that could benefit from big media. You have a lot of companies that hit a wall and can't get beyond a certain level. They need the infrastructure and distribution of a large company.
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Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.
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I see good ideas on the Republican side as well as the Democratic side. You have to return civility and statesmanship to governance. If you don't do that, it doesn't matter what portfolio of issue you're pushing, nothing is going to get done.
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It's very productive scientifically; I often get some very good ideas for my research while hiking.
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Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go.
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The good ideas will survive.
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Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?
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All good ideas arrive by chance.
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On my walks, that's when the good ideas come. The kind of hard, gritty work is when you're sitting at the computer and it's kind of intense and you're kind of in super control of it - the walks are when you let go. That's when the really big breakthroughs come in, and it's very strange.
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For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
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The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.
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