You are able to create an environment so that the creative process can take place and that you can get people to perform at their highest levels.

Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value

Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.

Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.

The challenge is to manage creative people so that the output is fruitful. The challenge is not to have an open environment and simply let them do whatever they want.

The mark of the developed intellect is that it could accommodate two contradictory ideas at the same time.

A pioneering and invaluable work about what it really takes to build innovation capability in society.

You are able to monitor and police your standards of quality once you have defined them.

If you are at Coca-Cola, the creative challenge is one of maintaining - rather than creating - a tremendous level of consumption for your products.

Tunes have notes and tempos and rules. If the tune is "All the Things You Are," you have to adhere to its structure and to the tradition behind that structure.

The capacity to creatively improvise is an important factor that differentiates successful companies - or teams - from those that are not successful.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

It doesn't matter how long you're here for, or what accomplishments you have, it matters what you do with that time and the type of person that you are.

It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.

Dramatic uprising of stupidity can start from nowhere and only be seen when it reaches it's climax.

Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.

We're never trying to manipulate and mess with... When you finish the movie, you hope you did a good job but you never know.

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

I go to bed at night worrying that I didn't do enough that day to make sure I protect the American people.

Do what you love and you'll always love what you do. I've found that that's true most of the time.

Only men of character are trusted.