"It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality."

"I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance."

"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought"

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."

"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."

"The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort."

"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."

"It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humour, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humour process is involved in changing them."

"If you never change your mind, why have one?"

"In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof."

"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."

"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."

"Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting."

"Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic."

"Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect."

"Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow."

"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it."

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices."

"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought"

"There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."