Top 33 Great Ideas Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Great Ideas Quotes from famous people such as Ellen Key, Cameron Winklevoss, Brad Thor, Jillian Hervey, Alexa Vega, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enth

It is not sufficient for the young to devote their enthusiasm, their courage, their ambition, their self-sacrifice to the great ideas of the time; the young must not only preserve but increase their powers if they are to be really equal to their eternal task: that of drawing the age in advance.
Ellen Key
With great ideas come great changes. Bitcoin’s that.
Cameron Winklevoss
From the political angle, I’m trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, ‘Are you a red state or blue state?’, I say, ‘I’m purple.’ I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.
Brad Thor
The best thing we’ve learned is when you are attempting to write a full song, write a full song that day. When we first started, we would have great ideas, but there’s something about a moment and a vibe that’s being created in time that when you return to it, it sometimes works, and it sometimes doesn’t.
Jillian Hervey
I love working with Darren Lynn Bousman. He is such a cool director with really great ideas.
Alexa Vega
I’ve talked to a lot of artists – painters, writers, musicians – many of whom have had great ideas on trains. The only explanation I have is all that stuff is coming at you while you’re relaxed, so somehow it kicks you into hyperspace in terms of brain function.
Peter Gabriel
A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world’s ignorance and press for admission.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
Nathan Fielder
Great ideas are very much ‘of the moment,’ and endlessly mulling them over just takes up too much of your brain space and might block your next great idea. Act on it, give it away, or move on.
Michael Bastian
It is the power of words and books – explaining and dramatizing great ideas and articulating high ideals – that is the greatest weapon in the missionary’s arsenal.
John C. Bogle
The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.
Erik Hersman
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Vladimir Nabokov
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
Harriet Martineau
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas A. Edison
My entire career has been built on the understanding that I am not only not the smartest person in the room, I am definitely not the smartest person in the world. And I am instead going to try to create as many opportunities to connect those great ideas and help them be great.
Alexis Ohanian
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.
Albert Einstein
I call it a process of elimination. You’re nurturing ideas, and that takes time. What happens is there’s so many, what I say, ‘great ideas.’ What you have to do is try to consolidate them and put them into one song, and then your song becomes eight minutes long.
Robert Trujillo
Young people have so many great ideas so I can’t wait to hear what children from around the country have come up with. ‘Pocket Money Pitch’ will encourage them to believe in themselves and ‘have a go.’
Steph McGovern
I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.
Dennis Prager
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Victor Hugo
I don’t think Philadelphia’s challenge is in coming up with great ideas or having great founders. I think the real challenge is keeping them here.
Josh Kopelman
I’ve always had great ideas.
Riff Raff
Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research.
Clayton M. Christensen
There are a lot of people that have great ideas that want to create disruptive companies that change the world but everybody doesn’t have the skills to be able to do that.
Chamillionaire
You really want a company that’s full of people from all these different backgrounds and then allow them to be creative as possible, come together, and come up with great ideas.
Tobias Lutke
I want to work with Will Ferrell. I want to do, like, an action-comedy with him. How do I get the project for that? It’s killing me. I’ve got all these great ideas, and the hardest thing is getting the material, the screenplay, you know.
Jason Statham
Research your idea. See if there’s a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don’t know if there’s a need for it. You also have to research your competition.
Magic Johnson
I’d listened to my colleagues in the teachers’ lunchroom. I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better. They just didn’t have the resources. I was frustrated, but I also knew it was a frustration felt by teachers all over the city.
Charles Best
You can have great ideas, and you can have all the right policy goals. But unless you’re expanding who is included in the political process, you won’t connect the two.
Michelle Wu
You can be a great researcher, and you can think you have great ideas, but until you’re forced to talk to a potential customer, you never really know.
Dan Lipinski
The cool thing about G.O.O.D. Music is it’s a bunch of great ideas, and I’m one of those ideas.
Mannie Fresh
Here's a simple truth: When you surround a good idea wi

Here’s a simple truth: When you surround a good idea with brilliant people, it changes. No matter how much you plan, great ideas have a mind of their own.
Marc Randolph
My creative side is identifying all these great entrepreneurial creative people that come up with great ideas, whether they are in fashion or technology or a new tool to improve ourselves.
Carmen Busquets