One should not focus on the differences between people but look for commonality and similarity.

People don't want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch holes.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want to buy a quarter-inch hole!

Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.

The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.

Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.

Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.

The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money.

Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356)

There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."

When you say or do anything to please, get, keep, influence, or control anyone or anything, fear is the cause and pain is the result.

We do know, with absolute certainty, that Saddam Hussein is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.

I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president were wrong on policy and issues, he ought to say where.

In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say the law of Hollywood.

I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me.

... demanding a separation between church and state isn't enough; the churches' basic doctrines must be changed, with homophobia written out forever.

The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and time.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?