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I Had That Idea! Oh Yea? STFU!

by MJ DeMarco · 8 comments

Your idea is nothing but a fart in the wind.  He who thinks of the idea owns nothing — he who executes on it, owns everything.  How many times have you sat around an exclaimed “I had that idea!”  Oh yea?  Well, you know what you can do.



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  • http://ultimatesolution.biz Kerry

    HA! I just wrote a little bit about this topic in a post last night touching on how I am not worried about people stealing my ideas. I even went so far as to say, “But if you don’t DO anything with your idea, it is not worth a thing.”

    The rest of my article is found at You Missed It!

    Thanks for telling it like it is MJ!

  • Deckman

    MJ,

    I like it! I like the way your say what is on your mind like STFU but also find it funny since my son has been using STFU for awhile now.
    You know I have this great Idea yada yada yada. Let me say this. I am almost thru your book and have learned SFM that its unreal. I know have a better route to take than originally so I think I will STFU and act.
    Looking forward to Tuesday eve. I’ll be listening in on the interview.

  • MJ DeMarco

    Thx Deckman … question what is “SFM?” Sorry, I’m not totally up on all the lingo.

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  • Nathan

    Exactly! It reminds me of this quote.

    “You know, you really don’t need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you’d have invented Facebook.”
    - The Social Network

  • Alex Baumann

    How true. Reminds me of Egg of Columbus story.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_of_Columbus

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  • http://www.facebook.com/nick.restrepo Nick Restrepo

    What about patents? I’ve got an idea for a website that I’ve been exploring and developing. The more I work on it the more I realize I’m utilizing features from other sites. What should I do?

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