Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

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.

Who knows the secrets of anybody’s heart.

A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet’s image of man.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well.

I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help people.

Stress is not caused by your busy life or challenging circumstances, it's simply the result of an imbalance between silence and activity.

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls.