Words matter. These are the best Big Idea Quotes from famous people such as Michael Gerber, David Ogilvy, Norman Swan, Adriana Trigiani, Bjarke Ingels, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
A true entrepreneurial enterprise begins with a big idea – a unique way to solve a customer’s problem. Your customer, after all, is the only justification for creating a company in the first place. Without a big, transformational idea, you can’t produce a great result for your customer.
It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.
Most of us would be happy with one big idea implemented in our lifetimes.
You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational – but it’s in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.
I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It’s more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.
If I’m in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge – l’art d’accommoder les restes – it means gardening.
Many venture capitalists say they’re looking for the next big idea. But they aren’t, really; they’re looking for something derivative, because derivative is safe.
I always have a big idea. It pops up every two to three years.
There’s something really beautiful about people from all different walks of life… who are bound together by this big idea about American identity and American unity and American interests.
I wrote ‘Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea’ because I don’t want my daughters to think in euphemisms.
America needs a big idea that plays to its strength. It should look to national service.
The big idea of, ‘Hey, I can pay anyone, anywhere, with whatever digital wallet they have, and it just flows around the Internet’ – that’s on the horizon; that’s how we built everything we do.
A lack of resources may slow you down, but don’t let it make you throw away a big idea. Give God five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, twenty-five years, thirty years, forty years, or more. Give God all the time He needs to bring the resources to you!
The biggest inspiration I had was to take norteno soul music and fuse it with Mexican music. It was my great big idea to do that.
If you have a big idea and you go after it, you have to get the right team together.
A big idea is great, but putting that big idea into action has the power to change the world.
What do I mean when I say ‘suspended animation’? It is the process by which animals de-animate, appear dead and then can wake up again without being harmed. OK, so here is the sort of big idea: If you look out at nature, you find that as you tend to see suspended animation, you tend to see immortality.
Whatever the creative industry, when you’re confronted with the challenge of coming up with a Big Idea, always work with the most talented, innovative mind available. Hopefully… that’s you.
People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love ‘We Are Young.’ I’ve heard it play at weddings. I’ve heard it in graduation parties. It’s a big idea and big song.
It’s the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there’s nothing more powerful.
My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table.
When I think of invention, I always think of America. You’re always seeing ads: ‘Have you got the next big idea?’ There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors.
Apple Music is a big idea, and it’s going to take some time to fulfill its overall dream.
I don’t design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I’m not a designer. I’m a communicator.
Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.
