For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.

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.

Do not let the temporal pain of discipline you need to acquire knowledge stop you from acquiring it.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

People think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

Recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void.

There is no substantive, rational defense; I mean, the other side doesn't have a case.

Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you'd like to know.

It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.

Of the influence of Mr. Mill's personal character on those who were his political associates, it is difficult to speak too warmly.

A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.

We didn't grow up with the sense that where we were was where we were gonna be. We grew up with the sense that where we were almost didn't matter, because we will be becoming something greater.