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Big Idea Quotes

We’ve collected the best Big Idea Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: J. K. Rowling, Meena Harris, Michael Gerber, George Lois, Masayoshi Son. Use them as an inspiration.

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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. Rowling
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I wrote ‘Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea’ because I don’t want my daughters to think in euphemisms.
Meena Harris
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A true entrepreneurial enterprise begins with a big idea – a unique way to solve a customer‘s problem. Your customer, after all, is the only justification for creating a company in the first place. Without a big, transformational idea, you can’t produce a great result for your customer.
Michael Gerber
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Whatever the creative industry, when you’re confronted with the challenge of coming up with a Big Idea, always work with the most talented, innovative mind available. Hopefully… that’s you.
George Lois
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I don’t design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I’m not a designer. I’m a communicator.
George Lois
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I always have a big idea. It pops up every two to three years.
Masayoshi Son
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It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.
David Ogilvy
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There’s something really beautiful about people from all different walks of life… who are bound together by this big idea about American identity and American unity and American interests.
Stephen Miller
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My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table.
Pramila Jayapal
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It’s the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there’s nothing more powerful.
Bill Drayton
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When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have to aggressively find ways to occupy myself; going off into the woods alone, doing things that are physically or mentally demanding to keep myself busy until the next big idea comes.
Philipp Meyer
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I really like Kickstarter because you don’t have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea or a person that sparks your imagination. It’s a type of microfunding directed toward creators.
Lisa Gansky
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People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love ‘We Are Young.’ I’ve heard it play at weddings. I’ve heard it in graduation parties. It’s a big idea and big song.
Janelle Monae
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I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It’s more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.
Bjarke Ingels
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If you have a big idea and you go after it, you have to get the right team together.
Michael G. Rubin
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When I think of invention, I always think of America. You’re always seeing ads: ‘Have you got the next big idea?’ There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors.
Simon Cowell
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A lack of resources may slow you down, but don’t let it make you throw away a big idea. Give God five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, twenty-five years, thirty years, forty years, or more. Give God all the time He needs to bring the resources to you!
Robert H. Schuller
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You have to know one big thing and stick with it. The leaders who had one very big idea and one very big commitment. This permitted them to create something. Those are the ones who leave a legacy.
Irving Kristol
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Most of us would be happy with one big idea implemented in our lifetimes.
Norman Swan
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The biggest inspiration I had was to take norteno soul music and fuse it with Mexican music. It was my great big idea to do that.
Ry Cooder
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I think I give myself high marks being an entrepreneur and entrepreneuring a big idea about how popular social gaming could be. But I learned a lot of hard lessons on the CEO front… and do not give myself very high marks as a CEO of a large-scale company.
Mark Pincus
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The big idea of, ‘Hey, I can pay anyone, anywhere, with whatever digital wallet they have, and it just flows around the Internet‘ – that’s on the horizon; that’s how we built everything we do.
Jeremy Allaire