“The type of person who comes up with the Brilliant Idea isn’t often the best person to turn it into a business.”
Bill Gates (verified)
“In science we must be interested in things, not in persons.”
— Marie Curie (verified, secondary source)“Our game is recognize a big idea when it comes along, when one doesn’t come along very often. Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.”
— Charlie Munger (verified)“Gibraltar may be strong, but ideas are impregnable, and bestow on the hero their invincibility.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Take a simple idea and take it seriously.”
— Charlie Munger (verified)“Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (verified, secondary source)