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

Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress.

Creative people tend to pass the responsibility for getting down to brass tacks to others.

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

The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of companies from their main task. ... No oil company gets as excited about the customers in its own backyard as about the oil in the Sahara Desert. ... But the truth is, it seems to me, that the industry begins with the needs of the customer for its products. From that primal position its definition moves steadily back stream to areas of progressively lesser importance until it finally comes to rest at the search for oil.

Anything in excess is a poison.

Ideas can be willed, and the imagination is their engine.