At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung's Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.

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.

Keep your friends close and your beneficiaries closer...Poor words to live by. Even worse to die by.

The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.

Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

I am an inventor of music.

Without knowledge and a workable plan, you are gambling, with little or no chance of success.

I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not write it sooner.

Open your mouth wide A universal sigh.

I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.