Success

Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats. – Howard Aiken

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination. – J. B. S. Haldane

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. – Hyman Rickover

I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. – John Cage

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. – John Steinbeck

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. – William O. Douglas

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. – Carl Schurz

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. – Georgia O’Keeffe

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. – Hector Berlioz

Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else’s resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property. – Milton Friedman

We call ourselves a “capacity building” organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don’t think I have signed a check for the company. – Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people.. they no longer can lead solely based on positional power. – Ken Blanchard

If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth century was a century of greatness, but we face the very real prospect that the next century will see very few enduring great institutions. – Jim Collins

You don’t get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier.. So long as I’m the dictator. – George Bush

It’s fascinating as we continue to innovate and lead the way in both the application space and the database space. In the very beginning, people said you couldn’t make relational databases fast enough to be commercially viable. I thought we could, and we were the first to do it. But we took tremendous abuse until IBM said, “Oh yeah, this stuff is good.” – Larry Ellison