Ultimately, the impresario must know when to simply get out of the way.

Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value

Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.

You are able to create an environment so that the creative process can take place and that you can get people to perform at their highest levels.

Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.

The challenge is to manage creative people so that the output is fruitful. The challenge is not to have an open environment and simply let them do whatever they want.

The mark of the developed intellect is that it could accommodate two contradictory ideas at the same time.

A pioneering and invaluable work about what it really takes to build innovation capability in society.

You are able to monitor and police your standards of quality once you have defined them.

If you are at Coca-Cola, the creative challenge is one of maintaining - rather than creating - a tremendous level of consumption for your products.

Tunes have notes and tempos and rules. If the tune is "All the Things You Are," you have to adhere to its structure and to the tradition behind that structure.

The USA has turned into a great country to study corporate government corruption.

A writer is a messenger for the subconscious.

Sam Turton is the true embodiment of the responsible artist. The honesty and integrity of the man comes out with every soulful note he sings.

This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.

Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.