Stacy Blackman Rule of Thumb

Anyone can have a good idea, but it takes certain know-how to turn that idea into a profitable venture; entrepreneurs need a broad skill set to manage the range of tasks required for success.

The Heath Brothers Rule of Thumb

The six key qualities of an idea that is made to stick are simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotional, and stories!
[Thanks, John Goulding]

Warren Buffet Rule of Thumb

If it’s a good idea today, it’s a good idea tomorrow.

Arthur C. Clarke Rule of Thumb

New ideas pass through three periods: (1) It can't be done. (2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. (3) I knew it was a good idea all along.

Victor Hugo Rule of Thumb

You can resist an invading army ... you cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

George Bernard Shaw Rule of Thumb

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples, then you and I will still each have one apple ... but if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

A. J. Foyt Rule of Thumb

For every person with a spark of genius, there are a hundred with ignition trouble.

James Asher Rule of Thumb

Never run out of altitude, air speed, and ideas at the same time.

Luke Johnson Rule of Thumb

It is the hard, often boring work of putting an idea into action that makes all the difference ... hard work is the reality of business, big ideas are cheap!

John Cage Rule of Thumb

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas ... I'm frightened of the old ones.

Ben Schott Rule of Thumb

Left-field ideas are those that tend to be unusual, creative, unexpected, and iconoclastic ... the term seems to derive from the area on a baseball field to the left of the hitter, but no one is quite certain as to why.

Jerry Kaplan Rule of Thumb

Timing is important ... the same idea can have different fates.

[From Dorf & Byers: Technology Ventures]

Abraham Lincoln Rule of Thumb

Some people can compress the most words into the smallest ideas.

Dale Carnegie Rule of Thumb

When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.

Jim Jindrick Rule of Thumb

Ask "why?" ... if that doesn't work, ask "why not?"

Tom Peters Rule of Thumb

You can't live without an eraser.

Dee Hock Rule of Thumb

The problem is never how to get new innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out!

Abraham Lincoln Rule of Thumb

Some people are good at compressing the most words into the smallest idea.

Clayton Christensen Rule of Thumb

There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lacklustre, or by which the wrong idea gets put forward.

Howard Aiken Rule of Thumb

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas ... if your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.