Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well.

Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.

Quite often startups were first out of the gate with a sustaining technology. But somehow the leaders got the technology and stayed atop their industries. Sometimes they acquired the startup; sometimes they just developed the technology as a follower and used their muscle and mass to win. But they always won.

You can't find returns in investments you haven't made.

In most instances, biotechnology, though a radically different approach, is a sustaining technology: It's a dramatically improved way of targeting problems that we hadn't been able to solve with the conventional approach of mainstream pharmaceutical companies.

Innovation simply isn't as unpredictable as many people think. There isn't a cookbook yet, but we're getting there.