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“My hypothesis is that the more an entrepreneur insists on a nondisclosure agreement, the less viable the idea.”
Guy Kawasaki
Entrepreneurship
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Trust
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Ideas
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Business
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Investment
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“Investors are looking for people who can implement ideas, not only come up with them.”
Guy Kawasaki
Investment
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Execution
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Ideas
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Business
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Success
3.
“The future belongs to those who can spread ideas.”
Guy Kawasaki
Innovation
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Future
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Ideas
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Influence
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Success
4.
“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”
Guy Kawasaki
Ideas
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Execution
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Effort
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Innovation
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Strategy
5.
“Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.”
Steven Wright
Creativity
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Comedy
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Value
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Integrity
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Ideas
6.
“A great leader should be replaceable when it comes to their tasks and actions. And irreplaceable when it comes to their thoughts and vision.”
Ankur Warikoo
Leadership
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Vision
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Replaceability
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Impact
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Ideas
7.
“If you are listening, you will never run out of ideas.”
Ankur Warikoo
Listening
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Creativity
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Ideas
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Inspiration
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Attention
8.
“The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say. It’s terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.”
Sam Walton
Success
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Listening
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Associates
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Involvement
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Ideas
9.
“Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who’s going to have a great idea.”
Sam Walton
Ideas
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Listening
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Openness
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Collaboration
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Discovery
10.
“The first one is could a Wal-Mart-type story still occur in this day and age? My answer is of course it could happen again. Somewhere out there right now there’s someone – probably hundreds of thousands of someones – with good enough ideas to go all the way. It will be done again, over and over, providing that someone wants it badly enough to do what it takes to get there. It’s all a matter of attitude and the capacity to constantly study and question the management of the business.”
Sam Walton
Opportunity
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Attitude
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Effort
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Ideas
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Success
11.
“Most everything I’ve done, I’ve copied from somebody else.”
Sam Walton
Copying
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Ideas
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Innovation
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Learning
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Humility
12.
“I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don’t invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.”
Sam Walton
Ideas
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Exploration
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Retail
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Borrowing
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Improvement
13.
“Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.”
Sam Walton
Ideas
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Clerks
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Stockboys
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Collaboration
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Innovation
14.
“I’d still say that visiting the stores and listening to our folks was one of the most valuable uses of my time as an executive. But really, our best ideas usually do come from the folks in the stores. Period.”
Sam Walton
Stores
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Listening
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Ideas
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Value
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Engagement
15.
“Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.”
Sam Walton
Ideas
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Innovation
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Borrowing
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Adaptation
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Creativity
16.
“It’s terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.”
Sam Walton
Involvement
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Ideas
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Clerks
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Stockboys
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Collaboration
17.
“Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.”
Alvin Toffler
Ideas
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Innovation
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Resistance
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Practicality
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Status Quo
18.
“Small things start us in new ways of thinking.”
V.S. Naipaul
Ideas
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Change
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Inspiration
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Perspective
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Growth
19.
“Whereas before he had waited for me to ask questions, now it was he who put up little ideas, little debating points, as though he wanted to get a discussion going.”
V.S. Naipaul
Conversation
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Curiosity
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Discussion
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Ideas
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Engagement
20.
“Certain ideas overwhelm us by their simplicity.”
V.S. Naipaul
Ideas
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Simplicity
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Insight
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Understanding
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Perception
21.
“If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.”
Scott Adams
Business
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Bureaucracy
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Strategy
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Ideas
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Workplace
22.
“Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.”
Scott Adams
Ideas
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Execution
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Success
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Business
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Entrepreneurship
23.
“The market rewards execution, not ideas.”
Scott Adams
Success
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Business
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Execution
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Ideas
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Reality
24.
“Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It’s the implementation that’s important! The trick isn’t just to have a computer game idea, but to actually create it!”
Scott Adams
Ideas
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Execution
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Creativity
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Implementation
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Work
25.
“This happens to me: I have this great idea and then I make the mistake of telling someone else.”
Scott Adams
Ideas
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Regret
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Sharing
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Mistake
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Creativity
26.
“Great minds don’t think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.”
Scott Adams
Innovation
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Creativity
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Thinking
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Genius
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Ideas
27.
“There’s no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people’s. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.”
Scott Adams
Ideas
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Perception
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Manipulation
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Thinking
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Opinion
28.
“I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Ideas
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Innovation
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Future
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Growth
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Leadership
29.
“I don’t care for success. The ideas sitting in my head are annoyed by, and envious of, that which I’ve already written.”
Anton Chekhov
Creativity
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Dissatisfaction
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Ambition
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Ideas
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Writing
30.
“We cannot change ideas in the minds of men and races with machine guns or battleships.”
Herbert Hoover
Change
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Ideas
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War
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Diplomacy
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Society
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