The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.

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.

Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)

You owe the world a load of wisdom to dispense. If you lay hands on the grace, make it happen. They world needs you!

Don't be afraid of suffering. Often scars are the medals of success.

It is not that I do not want you. Only that I might want you too much. And for too long

Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.

I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

Our body is there right now. You did not have to earn a thing. It is a gift. You are a hero every time you step out of your front door to do some exercise.

Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

To change one's life: a. Start immediately b. B. Do it flamboyantly c. No exceptions Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted.