If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

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

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship…the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

A fast way to demolish relationships, shatter credibility and disrespect yourself is by not following through when you say you are going to do something.

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men—the other 999 follow women.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.