These are some of our favourite quotes and passages that we’ve collected over the years that we find inspiring or remind us of the types of challenges we need to keep for ourselves to continue to strive for greatness.
The biggest risk in innovation lies in sticking too closely to your plans.
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
The first instinct in responding to this sudden economic crisis is to hunker down and wait for the storm to pass. That is the instinct, but acting on it would be a grave mistake. Our challenge today is radical transformation. Change at the margins will not do. The choice, it seems to me, is this: Reinvention or extinction. If we think it cannot happen to us, we ought to recall the fate of the Swiss watchmakers. Fabulous craftsmen, certainly, but the world has moved on, technologies have advanced, habits have shifted.
The task of Leadership is not to put greatness into people but to elicit it. For the greatness is there already.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
One has to passionately believe it is possible to change the industry, to turn it on its head, to make sure that it will never be the same again.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Someday isn’t a real day like Monday or Tuesday, it’s just another word for ‘never’.
Some disappointment is always the price of brave dreaming.
If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.
I have not failed, I’ve just found ten thousand ways that won’t work.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination can take you anywhere.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Success comes in cans, not can’t’s.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that, I learn from him.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.
The typical North American attention span is 6 minutes.
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
Success is measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; you must set yourself on fire.
Dialogue is a process of genuine interaction through which human beings listen to each other deeply enough to be changed by what they learn.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
A fish doesn’t know it’s wet.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
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