Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.

Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they feel it.

The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a surprise.

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

Ideas that transform industries almost never come from inside those industries.

The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.