An idea is nothing more or less than a new combination of…

An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements.

— James Webb Young

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing…

— Joshua Reynolds

Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations.…

— Alvin Toffler

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

— Amartya Sen

I am convinced that both markets and free trade are good, but the traditional answer that we give to students to explain why they…

— Paul Romer

“Pareto's Law can be summarized as follows: 80% of the outputs result from 20% of the inputs.”

— Timothy Ferriss

“20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That’s assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.”

— Ryan Lilly

Pareto's Principle: you generally spend 80% of your time on 20% of the project.

— Joseph M. Juran

A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed…

— Richard Branson

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they…

— Yukio Mishima

Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.

— Diana Vreeland

The idea of a new hero for a new day sang to me.

— Corey Hawkins

Every year, there's a new idea we can't do and a new technology for something that excites us.

— Todd Howard

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have…

— Alfred North Whitehead

If there's a new idea, a new invention, or a new gas, or a new whatever you know, It should be brought at least…

— Jimi Hendrix