In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

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.

She, on the other hand, seized things, truly wanted them, was passionate about them, played for all or nothing, and wasn’t afraid of contempt, mockery, spitting, beatings.

She is something else.

Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.

The authors of all our misfortune.

Earn the right to be proud and confident.

Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world.

It is so much better to get the right exposure than to have to mess around later with Photoshop.

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.

Who we are is the part of us that is infinite, the part of us that never stops.