Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?

Nearly 100% of innovation-from business to politics-is inspired not by "market analysis" but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are.

Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.

Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out.

I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you've got two kids, to start a coffee shop.