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.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
In a business world of nonstop change, there’s only one way to win the game: transform it entirely. This requires a revolution in thinking—a steady stream of disruptive strategies and unexpected solutions.
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
You’re only given a small spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.
It is not how many ideas you have. It’s how many you make happen.
Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy, and perseverance.
Could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?
If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Do not attempt to walk through life without a dream, without a hope, without a goal to achieve success.
I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I’ve become. If I had, I’d have done it a lot earlier.
Dialogue is a process of genuine interaction through which human beings listen to each other deeply enough to be changed by what they learn.
I never lose. I either win or learn.
Design thinking can be described as a discipline that uses the designer’s sensibility and methods to match people’s needs with what is technologically feasible and what a viable business strategy can convert into customer value and market opportunity.
Good questions outrank easy answers.
If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing, success will be yours.
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Practice hard. Wellness. Play with Abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Continue to learn. Appreciate your friends. Do what you love. Love as if this is all there is.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
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.
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.
Change is inevitable; growth is optional!
Children think not of what is past, nor what is to come, but enjoy the present time, which few of us do.
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.
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