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.

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

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.

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.

You're something between a dream and a miracle.

I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.

Learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon.

It's my life and it's now or never.

It takes many steppingstones, you know, for a man to rise. None can do it unaided

Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it

A mind is as strong as its weakest think.