"Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and, where appropriate, profits."
"To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field."
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Source: Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, Sir Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Earl of Nottingham (1817). “The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton: Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself”
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