Alternative form of a picture is worth a thousand words

A century egg (Chinese egg dish)

One should not interfere with promising developments in their early stages.

A visualisation is a better description than a verbal description.

plural of thousand-year-old egg

(dated, US) Synonym of million-dollar question

plural of sixty-four thousand dollar question

The cardinal number occurring after nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight and before ten thousand, represented in Arabic numerals as 9,999. Represented in Roman numerals as IXCMXCIX.

Even the longest and most difficult ventures have a starting point.

(rare) Approximately one thousand; a thousand odd.