JG etc.

Try to put it out, but it is a growing flame.
“In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.” - […]

In reading The Rise of the Creative Class I really enjoyed this quote Florida has from Adam Smith.

The man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations has no occassion to exert his understanding or to excercise his invention. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid […]