"Innovation is saying no to a thousand things."

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

"Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait."

"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

"The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it."

"It's none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way."

"Never mistake motion for action."

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."

"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."

"Management by objective works if you first think through your objectives."

"Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society."

"The most valuable asset of a 21st-century institution will be its knowledge workers and their productivity."

"Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right."

"To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent."