A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

One doesn't have to be a Marxist to be awed by the scale and success of early-20th-cent ury efforts to transform strong-willed human beings into docile employees.

You can't use an old map to see a new land.

The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen.

Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who's forging a bullet with your company's name on it. You've got one option now - to shoot first. You've got to out innovate the innovators.

We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.

Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

Every religion has extremists, and extremists have more in common with each other than they do with the common people of their faith.

Every day I grow in the wisdom that my soul is vibrationally connected to the Universe.

Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.

If ambition doesn't hurt you you haven't got it.

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force.

You dont do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

You know what happens when you don't take a risk? Nothing.

In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.