If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Valuable ideas deserve to be revisited and reinforced.
- In plain terms
- Good ideas should be kept and used again.
- What can you take from it?
- Recognize and reuse ideas that prove valuable.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Which ideas have you reused?
- What makes an idea worth keeping?
Another view
Sometimes new ideas are needed even if old ones were good.
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