“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

“Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction.”

“Remember that by saying “yes”—to projects, a course of action, or whatever—you are implicitly saying “no” to something else.”

“The strategic inflection point is the time to wake up an listen”

“Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee - you are a business with one employee, you. Andy Grove, CEO, Intel”

“Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment worth $2,000, you shouldn’t let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.”

“The absolute truth is that if you don’t know what you want, you won’t get it.”

“The ability to recognize that the winds have shifted and to take appropriate action before you wreck your boat in crucial to the future of an enterprise”

“As we throw ourselves into raw actions, our senses and instincts will rapidly be honed again”

“In short, strategic inflection points are about fundamental change in any business, technological or not”

“It's harder to be the best of class in several fields than in just one”

“You can be the subject of a strategic inflection point but you can also be the cause of one”

“People who have no emotional stake in a decision can see what needs to be done sooner.”

“Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more Successful you are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing”

“People in the trenches are usually in touch with impending changes early”

“In Technology, whatever can be done will be done”