Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist.

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.

The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.

The most radical thing we can do is connect people to one another. That starts conversations toward a vision for change.

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight.

What would it profit us to possess and perform everything else and be like pure saints, if we meanwhile neglected our chief purpose in life, namely, the care of the young?

Shake those stars from your hair, pretty Moonchild. It's time to dance with the noonday sun!

Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking ahead to that danger and suffering its effects even before it comes to us.

Did nothing in particular and did it very well.

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.

American acculturation is a very powerful form of brainwashing. I know more about it now, but it's very difficult to move away from a world that you've been told was the greatest country on earth.

I constantly try to humble myself; if you don't, I'm sure the game is going to find a way to humble you.

[Science fiction is] a mode of romance with a strong inherent tendency to myth.

I love stirring the pot. I love giving big companies a run for their money - especially if they're offering expensive, poor-quality products.