This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.

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.

The fact that you do not trust your spouse or lover doesn’t necessarily mean that they are cheating on you

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.

The sweetest misery is that caused by love.

I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death.

What's highest and best for you is always what's highest and best for everyone around you.

I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to using threats in order to propagate those beliefs.

Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again.