A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognized, but because nobody has assumed the responsibility for converting it from words into action.

Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.

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

Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

Selling concerns itself with the tricks and techniques of getting people to exchange their cash for your product. It is not concerned with the values that the exchange is all about. And it does not, as marketing invariable does, view the entire business process as consisting of a tightly integrated effort to discover, create, arouse and satisfy customer needs.

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.