Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for business any longer.

I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come up with new ideas and new things. [...] If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual", each of them is a "multitude".

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.

For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.

...perhaps the most distinguishing trait of visionary leaders is that they believe in a goal that benefits not only themselves, but others as well. It is such vision that attracts the psychic energy of other people, and makes them willing to work beyond the call of duty for the organization.