“The common question that gets asked in business is, 'why?' That's a good question, but an equally valid question is, 'wh...”

“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”

“You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll wan...”

“Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.”

“Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach but it is unlikely to produce the first motor ca...”

“New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are yo...”

“Under the right circumstances, a tiny spark can grow into an inferno that can overcome an entire city. So can an idea.”

“What we often take to be the new is simply the old under some novel form.”

“Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”

“Innovators are the ones whose dreams are clearer than the reality that tells them they're crazy.”

“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”

“Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.”