The trouble with much of the advice business is getting today about the need to be more vigorously creative is, essentially, that its advocates have generally failed to distinguish between the relatively easy process of being creative in the abstract and the infinitely more difficult process of being innovationist in the concrete.

Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection.

The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.

People don't want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch holes.

One should not focus on the differences between people but look for commonality and similarity.

Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.

Anything in excess is a poison.