Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

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.

When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge

If the world is polluted, we are polluted. If the world dies, we die anyway. I don't pretend to be separate from the world. If she is poisoned, I jump in and be poisoned with her.

I wanted to be part of something bigger

I don't think there's any accidents in my life.

I don’t care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice.

You can't just say, "I'm gonna have style." You have to work at it. It's intuitive; some people have it, and some people can work on it all day long, and it will never happen.

You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along.

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.