Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis by author) [2002] p.25f

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.

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

One day you will meet someone who will show you what you are made of. I only hope it is someone not forbidden to you ...

That's like being a hockey player born on January I.

I was nice to the people in the Philippines for the two and a half years I was there, because I knew even­tually I'd have to kiss up to them so my grandchildren could have toys.

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

The biggest thing for me is just to get out on that field. Just to do that will be incredible.

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

Big visions are realized through small steps.

I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.