Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

People don't want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch holes.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want to buy a quarter-inch hole!

Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.

The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.

Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.

Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.

The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money.

Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".

Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.

It's all about Perfection or the tolerance of Imperfection

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

I call my parents twice a day when I'm away.

How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.

I have been very, very consistent. But at the same time I kept kind of hitting my head on the ceiling and I couldn't break through.

People always grow and mature.

I've always been extremely lucky in my life.

The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.

Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it have a computer in it.