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.

Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.

360° AccountabilityAs an Entrepreneur, you are held: Accountable to GodAccountable to Your FamilyAccountable to Your TeamAccountable to Your ClientsAccountable to YourselfAccountable to Your Outcome

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste.

Life is what you make it... and nowhere close to making mine the best it can be.

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery.

There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

I think the older you get, the more lax you get, and the less romantic you are.

we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.