The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen.

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.

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.

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.

A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose.

How can you be afraid to live yet scared to die?

As long as you keep a person down some part of you has to be down there to hold him down so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness.

On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.

Snatching happiness takes a lot more courage than enduring unhappiness

Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.

But I'll be fine. I'll be with Tod. He's a good guy, you know." He just hides it under all the sarcasm and curls.

Anytime you have to sacrifice your art, or integrity, it's a bad deal, no matter what they're offering.

Let me apologize for all the faces I've worn, none of them my own.