Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough.

Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.

You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future

I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

Analysis is simplifying, breaking down things into parts, picking out strands and elements. Analysis is comparing unknown things with things that are known. Analysis also involves picking out relationships and putting them back together as a whole.