If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Success is not about having many ideas but finding a few good ones. Quantity is less important than quality.
- In plain terms
- One good idea is worth many bad ones.
- What can you take from it?
- Value quality over quantity in your work.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you measure success?
- What makes an idea worth pursuing?
Another view
Sometimes generating many ideas is necessary to find the good one.
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