Creation occurs when ideas and individuals collide and collude.

If a species is diverse, it can survive and prosper. If a species is homogeneous, it is vulnerable.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

There is no shortage of time. In fact, we are positively awash with it. We only make good use of 20 per cent of our time.... The 80/20 principle says that if we doubled our time on the top 20% of activities, we could work a two-day week and achieve 60 per cent more than now.

The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity.

To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?