Jack Dorsey Quotes

I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about.

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

If not enough people doubt you, you're not making a difference.

We tend to credit those who create an idea, not those who perfect it, forgetting that it is often only in the perfection of an idea that true progress occurs. Putting sixty-four transistors on a chip allowed people to dream of the future. Putting four million transistors on a chip actually gave them the future.

If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making.

Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.

Time is a function of impact. The longer a book of mine has been in print, the greater its impact seems to be as people absorb and digest my ideas. I am especially proud of The Change Master: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the American Corporation, first published in 1983, because it raised questions and addressed issues at a time when so many great changes were occurring in our society, indeed throughout the world.

The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.

When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.

The most important question of the 21st century is not what or how much, it is 'How?' How do you propose to turn your good ideas into positive changes in other people's lives? You must be the 'how generation.'

They enjoy thinking. They enjoy being creative. They enjoy having ideas. Most people do not enjoy thinking at all.

The value of a good idea is in using it.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

Someone, somewhere has a better idea.

You should be able to grab people with ideas.

It's always great when you get a lot of people pushing themselves to do better, be better, invent better, better serve, better lead customers in new directions.

If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.

It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell people, 'here's this great idea,' then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product.

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

I love being around people that contribute. It doesn't matter where the good idea comes from. A good idea is a good idea.

Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.