At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction.

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

Success depends on intuition, on seeing what afterwards proves true but cannot be established at the moment.

Innovations are changes which cannot be decomposed into infinitessimal steps.

Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change.

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.

They found a scrapbook with photos of Osama bin Laden from the '90s, and they're studying each and every photo very, very closely. My favorite shot of Osama bin Laden was right between the eyes.

Perhaps the basic thing which contributes to charm is the ability to forget oneself and be engrossed in other people.

In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.

I love working with the singers. I love just finding them.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.

I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.

It was really fun [on set of the Pineapple Express]. I mean, how could I not have fun? It was exactly what you think it would be.