1. “In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.”
2. “In an ideal world, an individual’s institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. in practice, This is seldom the case.”
3. “If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you’re in trouble.”
4. “For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.”
5. “Perseverance may be just as important as sped in the battle for the future.”
6. “Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.”
7. “Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns.”
8. “Win small, win early, in often.”
9. “Only stupid questions create wealth.”
10. “Great accomplishments start with great aspirations.”
11. “What matters in the new economy is not return on investment, but return on imagination.”
12. “The value of your network is the square of the number of people in it.”
13. “In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.”
14. “Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.”
15. “We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility.”
16. “Our biggest challenge is how to create a self-renewing company.”
17. “A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.”
18. “Obviously, you don’t have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.”
19. “There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize.”
20. “Discovery is the journey; insight is the destination.”
21. “Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.”
22. “Large organizations don’t worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn’t take a crisis to set a company on a new path.”
23. “Any company that cannot imagine the future won’t be around to enjoy it.”
24. “Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.”
25. “You can’t use an old map to see a new land.”
26. “An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.”
27. “Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.”
28. “The goal is not to speculate on what might happen, but to imagine what you can make happen.”
29. “Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.”
30. “It is important to remember that innovators in business don’t always get a platform.”
