Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.

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.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.

I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be.

[Would] a sensible man spit out the juicy morsel that good fortune put in his mouth?

Impressive, most impressive. (Darth Vadar)

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.