I would like to classify several quotes from different people who can motivate the entrepreneur for undertaking any action or to expand knowledge with views of some successful people. This will be a new series of posts, which will deal with various quotes from which we will try to extract some conclusions or recommendations for entrepreneurs.
Let’s start with quotes about business ideas.
Business Ideas Quotes
At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right – Bill Gates.
If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn’t any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man’s greatest asset – Harvey S. Firestone.
I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think – Leo Burnett.
There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas.. more than money.. are the real currency for success – Eli Broad.
There’s no good idea that can’t be improved on – Michael Eisner.
I feel I’m able to serve my customer by knowing what she or he wants. One of the ways I’m able to do this is through my website, and email: people give me great ideas, tell me what they want, what they don’t want. It’s really instrumental, and helps me stay in touch with people – Kathy Ireland.
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.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on – John F. Kennedy.
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.
My job is to listen to ideas, maybe cook up a few of my own, and make decisions based on what’s good for the shareholders and for the company – Philip Knight.
Capital isn’t that important in business. Experience isn’t that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas – Harvey S. Firestone.
An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple – Jay Abraham.
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.
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see – Edward de Bono.
A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights – Brian Tracy.
Conclusions and Recommendations
- Ideas are the biggest assets of your business.
- Allow free flow of ideas at all levels in your business.
- Be open to ideas that coming from outside of your business.
- Put the ideas on paper. You can use the business ideas book template for this purpose.
- All business ideas as everything else in your business can be subject to improvement.
- Communicate with your customers to extend the ideas for your business. Only they can give you really high quality ideas that can immediately be applied in your business. Ask questions whose answers will give you new business ideas.
- A business idea to be a good business idea, there must be the existence of market need. The business idea is evaluated from the market, not from you as an entrepreneur. So, first make market research for each business idea.
- Stay focused on what happens in the environment. Sometimes the best business ideas or business solutions are right next to you, but you simply don’t see them. Follow everything and ask questions like Why and How. In this way, you will be able to see the difference in something that is obviously and clearly. These differences probably will not be seen from your competitors.
- The business idea is a creation of your mind, mind of an entrepreneur, and nothing else. Everything else represents a tool that helps you to create the idea.
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