You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

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.

And please God, grant me the wisdom to remember that I am writing for children, not golden stickers.

Don’t neglect or ignore every second that passes

If you don’t plan to have someone work for you, you will work for someone else. There is no in-between.

The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in bring­ing Adolf Hitler into power in 1933.

Sometimes I wish I was a guy. Life’s so much easier for them.

Il n'est rien de réel que le rêve et l'amour. (Nothing is real but dreams and love.)

The ultimate goal of Jungian psychotherapy is to make the symbolic process conscious

Sometimes people say things they don't mean, and you just have to let it go.

If you lose yourself, then no one's going to respect or pay attention to anything you have.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.