[I]n a free society each individual has a responsibility towards the beliefs of his society—a responsibility on which all the rights and duties of ci… - Peter Drucker

Successful innovators are..not risk-focused; they are opportunity focused.

It is a law of nature that two moving bodies in contact with each other create friction. This is as true for human beings as it is for inanimate objects.

Ideas are somewhat like babies--they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?"