“Without trust there’s no way that any organization can sustain innovation. Because without trust no one is willing to take the risks that innovation require.”

“Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment.”

“And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen. (Mystic River)”

“Life isn't happily ever after... It's work. The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves that burden of it, either. You'll be let down. You'll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But you roll up your sleeves and work - at everything - because that's what growing older is.”

“the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize the company”

“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”

“Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.”