The value of your network is the square of the number of people in it.

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.

Promise yourself to forgive everyone, love everyone, and judge no one.

God knows us more than we know Him.

We sat bathed in luscious darkness, Casco Bay's thousand islands spread out before us like a diamond quilt. 'I don't get enough of this, ' she said.

It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.

You must work well with others and be loyal to your team. Disloyalty is the worst of all traits. I seldom use the words "You're fired!" in business, unless somebody is really scum and stole from me.

I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page. Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

Hymns are the poetry of the people.

I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs.

Agreement is made more precious by disagreement.