Though progress starts with the imagination, only work can make things happen. And work itself works best when fueled, again by the imagination.

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

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.

Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".

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.

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.