Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future.

You can't use an old map to see a new land.

The opportunities for future growth are everywhere. Seeing the future has nothing to do with speculating about what might happen. Rather, you must understand the revolutionary potential of what is already happening.

One way of building private foresight out of public data is looking where others aren't ... if you want to see the future, go to an industry confab and get the list of what was talked about. Then ask, "What did people never talk about?" That's where you're going to find opportunity.

I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.

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.