ideation

People are bad at looking at seeds and guessing what size tree will grow out of them. The way you__l get big ideas in, say, health care is by starting out with small ideas. If you try to do some big thing, you don__ just need it to be big; you need it to be good. And it__ really hard to do big and good simultaneously. So, what that means is you can either do something small and good and then gradually make it bigger, or do something big and bad and gradually make it better. And you know what? Empirically, starting big just does not work. That__ the way the government does things. They do something really big that__ really bad, and they think, Well, we__l make it better, and then it never gets better_.Building Fast Companies for Growth, Inc. September 2013

If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you__e competing against a lot of people. But if you__e willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you__e now competing against a fraction of those people_ Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavors that you could never otherwise pursue

Both the suicidal and non-suicidal are often angry with others. One way to discharge this anger is to fantasize about violent revenge. The insults of daily life often cause fantasies of revenge to flare up and quickly subside. The people with these fantasies usually do not act on them; they are not motives or goals. They are involuntary responses to perceived insult__ays of coping with rage. The suicidal, whether or not they attempt, suffer tremendous and persistent pain and anger. That this pain should find its way into their fantasies and dreams is no surprise. This ideation is not a motive for action; it is an alternative to action. Fantasizing about suicide is an effort to delay or avoid suicide, not the activity of formulating a motive, goal, or intention. Fantasies doubtlessly succeed in preventing many attempts.

Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it.

There is a strange idea abroad, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary, is something a man already has. He has it, perhaps, because he already has marketable assets of a greater cash value than the loan for which he is asking. Or he has it because his character and past record have earned it. He brings it into the bank with him. That is why the banker makes him the loan. The banker is not giving something for nothing.

Creativity & innovation is to events, what the heart & soul is to the living

If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god.

My best ideas come in the shower, where I__ showered with water, but also ideas.

A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place.