You need to get one thing done well, or else you don't have permission to do anything else.

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way is the one that achieves madness.

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance.

You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.

I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.