"You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high."

"I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors."

"Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity."

"While one should never underestimate the ability of risk-besotted financiers to wreak havoc, the real threat to capitalism isn't unfettered financial cunning. It is, instead, the unwillingness of executives to confront the changing expectations of their stakeholders."

"To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves."

"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions."

"Thankfully, I was given a strong base by my parents, an understanding of who I was and my strength."