Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.

People don't want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch holes.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want to buy a quarter-inch hole!

Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.

The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.

Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.

Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.

The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money.

Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

It is not how long the music last but how much we enjoy.

There are no keys to success - only tools.

If a ruler who wants to act honourably is surrounded by unscrupulous men, his downfall is inevitable.

At the end of faith there is always some calamity

When energy speeds up there is no space for playing small, and nothing can remain hidden.

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

What one man can think, another man can do.

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

Rehabilitate the germs that cause bad breath.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.