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" Businesses that distribute information and news are in the business of training and teaching people. "
Clayton M. Christensen
People
Business
Training
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" While I wouldn't say that most entrepreneurs find it easy to get funding, there are certainly more people out there funding technology and healthcare companies than in other areas. "
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" In a healthy economy, empowering, sustaining and efficiency innovations operate in balance. A healthy economy creates and sustains more jobs before squeezing out inefficiencies. "
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" Efficiency innovations are a natural part of the economic cycle, but these are the innovations that streamline process and actually reduce the number of available jobs. "
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" I talk to our kids now that they are grown up, and I ask them about the experiences that had growing up that really had a powerful influence on the way they view the purpose of life. The experiences that really shaped their values - my wife and I have no memory of those experiences! "
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" The only way all people can have the opportunity to choose or reject the gospel of Jesus Christ is for us, without judgment, to invite them to follow the Savior. "
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Opportunity
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" Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served. "
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Us
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" Empowering innovations transform something that is complicated and expensive into something that is so much more simple and affordable that a much larger population can enjoy it. "
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" The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives. "
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Will
" My wife comes most of the times I teach and stands on the front row to help me. She's been wonderfully supportive. "
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" I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me. "
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" I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues. "
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" I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become. "
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" If you develop a product that gets what the customer is trying to get done, you don't have to advertise; people will just pull it into their lives. "
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Customer
Done
" The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business. "
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" What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become. "
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Me
" 'Disruption' is, at its core, a really powerful idea. Everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now. It's the same way people hijacked the word 'paradigm' to justify lame things they're trying to sell to mankind. "
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Want
People
Powerful
" Venture capital is always wanting to go up market. "
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Always
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" Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers. "
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Business
Good
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" There are companies trying to build business within Saudi Arabia, and what they find is that if they try to bring on locals and teach them how to become senior executives, they just don't show up to work. They are not predictable as to when they'll come in and how much of their hearts are into that opportunity. "
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" Most marketers think there's a concept called a product life cycle. Once you realize that the world is organized by jobs that need to be done, you understand that product life cycles don't exist. "
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You
" Having a loving relationship with our spouse or with our children is what leads to the long-term happiness we all seek. "
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" I love my life as a missionary, keeping myself on the front lines. The image in my mind is that God, my general, stands at the door when I go out every morning; and, knowing what the war is like, day after day he gives me his most powerful weapon: his Spirit. For this I am grateful. "
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" Inviting others to help us with our work in the Church helps them feel needed and helps them feel the Spirit. When these feelings come, many people often then realize that something has been missing from their lives. "
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" Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job. Even if you eliminate what makes you dissatisfied, that doesn't make you motivated. It doesn't make your work rewarding. You just are less bothered by things. "
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" The basic idea that marketing is wrong at its core is one of the main reasons why innovation seems blocked and unpredictable. "
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" One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed to innovation that they will give the innovators a lot of money to spend. "
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" For online universities, like Liverpool and the University of Phoenix, if prices drop by 60%, they still make money. But for the vast majority of traditional universities, if the prices fall by 10%, they are bankrupt; they have no wriggle room. "
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" I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, however, end up allocating their resources in a way that seriously undermines their intended strategy. "
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" Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough. "
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" What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions. "
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