If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated...they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.

I endorse a lot of people - sometimes people say I endorse too many books. And my response has always been the same: If I can get one case study that can give me one good idea that I can implement for $25, or for these days one-third of that on Kindle, I've gotten a very good deal.

Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment.

The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.

Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich support network so their pioneers will flourish. This point is so important it's hard to overstress. No support systems, no champions. No champions, no innovations.