"Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of……" — Theodore Levitt
"Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo."
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Theodore Levitt
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25 Quotes by Theodore Levitt
Theodore Levitt has 25 quotes on this site.
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Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital…
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Ideas can be willed, and the imagination is their engine.
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Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.
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The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of…
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Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.
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Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.
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A consistently highly creative person is generally irresponsible.
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Ideas are useless unless used.
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Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
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People don't want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch holes.
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The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money.
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The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever…
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More Action Quotes
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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