The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.

I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?

When I read Deborah Brenner's book 'Women of the Vine' about women wine makers, I was impressed that many of the women she had interviewed had come to wine making later in life as a second career.