The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.

Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.

An era similar to the one in which the black rotary phone dominated its product category may not recur anytime soon.

The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.

A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.