Success depends on intuition, on seeing what afterwards proves true but cannot be established at the moment.

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction.

Innovations are changes which cannot be decomposed into infinitessimal steps.

Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change.

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.

Katniss. I remember about the bread.

Growing up and being a kid, I knew that creativity was at the heart of what I wanted to do. I always had this feeling of wanting to be a comedian and wanting to be an actor.

Believe me, I don't like being photographed. I don't like myself in pictures. Actually, I do sometimes.

The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air, leaving nothing but a memory of bright sound.

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually get a deferred paycheck.

You may knock your opponent down with the chessboard, but that does not prove that you are the better player.

When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didnt have time to think.

The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social function of art as such.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.