On innovation and creativity

"The hallmark of being innovative is to observe and to improve." - Wesley R. Edens, chairman and chief executive officer of Fortress Investment Group (and OSU College of Business '84).

"Listen, think, learn, experiement, fail, repeat...Then, every once in a while, you succeed and great things ensue." - John Hoke of Nike.

Quoted in The Exchange, The Oregon State University College of Business Magazine, Fall 2007.