Business people don't need to understand designers better. They need to be designers.

Design isn't just about making things beautiful; it's also about making things work beautifully.

You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.

The two most fundamental strategic choices are deciding where to play and how to win.

I love that Toronto is demonstrating that a big, highly diverse, multicultural city can actually work and work well, if its residents have the attitude of Torontonians.

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.

I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

Feelings too must be renovated: old ones removed in many cases, or at least thoroughly modified, and new ones installed or at least heightened into a new prominence.

Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period.

By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

When certain people hear "'SNL' comedy," rightfully so, you expect it to be a certain kind of goofiness.

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.