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" In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when they hire people that students didn't learn what we needed them to learn. Online learning offerings, like the University of Phoenix, have relationships with employers and teach what you need to know. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Learn

Learning

Need

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" Learning is its own exceeding great reward. "

" I wouldn't say there isn't a direct path to a successful career. There are people who knew exactly what they wanted to do from a very young age, weren't going to be diverted, and then they just went out and achieved it. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Career

Successful

People

" Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes. "

" Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. "

" I bark my voice out through a closed throat, pretty much. It's more, perhaps, like a dog in some ways. It does have its limitations, but I'm learning different ways to keep it alive. "

Tom Waits

Voice

" Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering. Efficiency innovators become the low cost providers within an existing framework. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Cost

Become

Within

" I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter. "

" Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now. "

" I have always been intrigued by other cultures, and traveling to foreign lands has always been a part of my personal passion for learning about our world. "

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

Learning

Always

World

" I am fiercely loyal and over-possessive, but I am learning to control my being possessive. I have become quite mature, though not as much as I would like to be, but have still improved tremendously. I can't hide my feelings, and it takes a lot of effort to be closed about things I feel for. "

" After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather. "

" When a company identifies how to integrate the processes needed to give the consumer a sense of job completion, it can blow away the competition. A product is easy to copy, but experiences are very hard to replicate. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Company

Competition

Job

" A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Healthcare

First

American

" There are a lot of companies - not just Sony and Kodak - that have spent a lot of money trying to make the quality of the digital images comparable with film. But when you're sending these things over the Internet, they don't have to be high quality. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Internet

Money

You

" Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. "

" I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good. "

" My father was a great admirer of music and the arts, so there was always a lot of culture in the house. As it happened, while my father was the ambassador in Portugal, the ambassador's residence had a piano, and so I started learning how to play it at the age of five. "

" I learnt not to be desperate in bad times and am learning not to be bullish when times are good. "

John Elkann

Bad

Bad Times

" In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. "

" My wife comes most of the times I teach and stands on the front row to help me. She's been wonderfully supportive. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Teach

Wife

Front

" All these labels and praises scare me. I am very simple, and I feel like a newcomer because I never stopped learning. "

Sridevi

Learning

Never

" This life is a process of learning. "

" I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad. "

Jet Li

Bad

Why

" I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. "

Winston Churchill

Always

Learning

" The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Business

Failure

" Take any old classification problem where you have a lot of data, and it's going to be solved by deep learning. There's going to be thousands of applications of deep learning. "

" First grade was - I spoke only Spanish, and second grade - probably a bit more English. And by the time I hit third grade, I was learning, of course, much, much more English. "

Juan Felipe Herrera

Time

First

" The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence. "

" Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children. "

" A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. "