But a dozen other creative geniuses had the same idea at the same time.
The problem he ran into was that every other hotel chain had the same idea.
Nancy Birdsall of the Centre for Global Development applied the same idea to developing countries.
Other companies have had the same idea, although most have focused on different applications.
In the days after the shooting, children around the country had the same idea as Grant.
Of some small consolation, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen lost money pursuing the same idea of demand aggregation.
The same idea however expressed with enormous enthusiasm immediately becomes more attractive and is usually taken more seriously.
The problem is that thousands of other people saw the same show and all have the same idea.
It's the same idea as IBM selling not just boxes but integrated systems.
ExxonMobil has the same idea for its estimated 10tcf of gas in Scarborough.
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So seven years ago, a bartender from Long Island had the same idea.
It's the same idea as mixing the Chanel jacket with the Converse trainers.
More than 25 years later, he was still hitting on the same idea.
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Of course, in the 1920s, Henry Ford essentially had the same idea.
Smart people at both companies are betting big on the same idea.
The same idea can be applied in man-made lenses, says Dr Aizenberg.
If I were selling the same idea over and over, then I'd have to work harder every time to get the same liftoff.
Many scientists think that other effective cancer treatments might be created through the same idea: Target the defective protein that causes the disease.
Some financial advisers are trying to apply the same idea to the mutual-fund universe by calculating upside and downside "capture ratios" against benchmark indexes.
And so what I do is I bring down the tax rates, lower deductions and exemptions -- the same idea behind Bowles-Simpson, by the way.
Buying gold as a hedge against a failing economy seems to be the best idea so far, but now it seems that everyone has the same idea.
Unfortunately, everyone got the same idea at the same time.
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Indeed, it is the same idea, with a new twist.
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The same idea of emotional response applies to brands.
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It appears that other investors have the same idea.
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