We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

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.

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.

For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.

Never expect a yield of milk from a bull.

Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!

The big, bad unknown is only that until it is known. Then you look back and wonder what all the fuss and worry was about.

Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls.

You can live in the world and have friends, family and possessions. But don't take them all too seriously. Death removes everything. Feel death is every moment, as life is every moment.

Because I am about to be devoured by poodles," I quip. "Remember me always, my love.

Go down where all life begins, go down that's where my love is.

It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll)

The big thing is I try not to repeat.