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

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.

You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

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

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.

Ideas are useless unless used.