The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

—Vince Lombardi

Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said could not be done.

—Sam Ewing

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

—Albert von Szent-Gyorgy

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

—Robert Reich

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

—Frank Tyger

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

—Albert Einstein

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.

—Guy Kawasaki

The achievement of excellence can occur only if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.

—Lawrence Miller

There's a way to do it better—find it.

—Thomas Edison

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

—Walt Disney

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

—Linus Pauling

When all think alike, then no one is thinking.

—Walter Lippman

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

—Anthony Jay

High expectations are the key to everything.

—Sam Walton

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

—Dr. Linus Pauling

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

—Tony Benn

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

—Arthur Koestler

The world is but a canvas to our imaginations.

—Henry David Thoreau

Find your passion... then it is no longer work!

—L.A. Reid

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

—Albert Einstein

You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.

—Larry Page

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

—Edward de Bono

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

—Dean Kamen

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

—John F. Kennedy

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

—Erich Fromm

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try.

—Debbi Fields

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

—Henry Ford

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.

—Lawrence Miller

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out of date.

—Roger von Oech