Edward de Bono Quotes

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. It's what you do with them that counts.

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.

A dream will not become an innovation if there is no realization.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.

When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

You can have outlandish ideas, but if you don't work at them, they just remain outlandish ideas. Anyone can have an idea. Work is transformative.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who execute them are not.

The best ideas are useless unless carried out.

Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!

A brilliant idea without action is like Mark McGwire playing baseball without a bat.

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

What good is inspiration if it's not backed up by action?

Stop sketching and start building.

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

Stop sketching. Start building.

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something.

I put my ideas into practice. That may be the reason people hate me.

Do you know the phrase, 'The word 'water' will not wet you?' It's one thing to write down an idea and another thing entirely to execute it.

I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.