An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.

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.

Books?" Ridley looked disgusted. "Carry?

A technicality I'm prepared to hide wildly behind.

I'm an advocate of human nature.

You can't just sit around in leopard-print slippers and drink champagne all day and think everything's gonna work out somehow.

We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us.

The true measure of what you put in, is what's received on the other end.

I think it's a theory... the theory of evolution and I don't accept it as a theory.

Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.

There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.