Don't think you have to be the disrupter to win. A fast-following disruptee will do very well if you can bring your existing customers and ecosystem along with you.

Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.

Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.

We have embarked upon the world's largest and longest cocktail party, and every issue imaginable is up for grabs.

Sustaining innovations are the key to consistent performance, whereas disruptive innovations are the key to dramatic changes in power.

The biggest problem is typically overly ambitious expectations combined with undercapitalization.

Marketing has long known how to exploit fads and how to develop trends.

The only way an established enterprise can dramatically increase its stock price is by adding a net new high-growth earnings engine to its existing portfolio.

Try to learn as fast as you can from the wizards and then steal what you can appropriate from them and use it to modernize your existing business model (without disrupting it).

As a buying group, visionaries are easy to sell but very hard to please. This is because they are buying a dream - which, to some degree, will alwasy be a dream.

If you want to be drunk, become drunk with an idea. If you want pleasure, have pleasure from the pursuit of your passion. If you want to be indoctrinated, then be so by the natural law of humanism.

It'll be the biggest decision of my life. Knowing me, I'll probably make the wrong choice.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

I'm quite old-fashioned. I like going out to dinner. You have the chance to talk to somebody and get to know them better.

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.

Religion is a self-conferred intellectual decision; it's not something you get at birth and is unchangeable. You're collusive with the religion when you accept it; you have a choice.

I am like the little rock n' roll backseat driver.

I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.