At the heart of every faith system is a bargain: on one side there is the comfort that comes from a narrative that suggests human life has cosmic significance, and on the other a duty to yield to moral commands that can, in the moment, seem rather inconvenient.

— Gary Hamel

Gary Hamel Quotes

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

— Gary Hamel

Obviously, you don’t have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

— Gary Hamel

An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It’s always redefining its ‘core business’ in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

— Gary Hamel

Influence is like water. Always flowing somewhere.

— Gary Hamel

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

— Gary Hamel

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism – but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

— Gary Hamel

Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.

— Gary Hamel

You can’t build an adaptable organization without adaptable people – and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

— Gary Hamel

There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize.

— Gary Hamel

In an ideal world, an individual’s institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

— Gary Hamel

We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility.

— Gary Hamel

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

— Gary Hamel

Any company that cannot imagine the future won’t be around to enjoy it.

— Gary Hamel

I don’t know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

— Gary Hamel

Only stupid questions create wealth.

— Gary Hamel

Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

— Gary Hamel

In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

— Gary Hamel

In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

— Gary Hamel

The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.

— Gary Hamel

What matters in the new economy is not return on investment, but return on imagination.

— Gary Hamel
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