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" 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

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" Yes, I've heard of the 'Mad Men' comparisons, but I like to think 'The Hour' has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love, passion, romance, fury, professional jealousy, and personal failure are universal, I think. "

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" I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure. "

" I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure. "

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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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Core

Innovation

" The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life. "

" Like anyone, I'm scared of failure. That drives you to work really hard. "

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Failure

Hard

" Most people don't really do too many things because they're afraid they'll fail. There are people failing all the time, all around you. And nobody is going to notice your failure. Your failure is not going to be so spectacular that people write news stories about it. Your failure will be boring. "

" My life has been nothing but a failure. "

" A minute's success pays the failure of years. "

" 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. "

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Cost

Become

Within

" Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management, that's deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession. "

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Management

People

Opportunity

" If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. "

" Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it. "

" I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody. "

" The iPod is a proprietary integrated product, although that is becoming quite modular. You can download your music from Amazon as easily as you can from iTunes. You also see modularity organized around the Android operating system that is growing much faster than the iPhone. So I worry that modularity will do its work on Apple. "

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Growing

Worry

Apple

" The Conservatives are a confusing lot. They first denied climate change was a serious issue and then suggested strengthening the nuclear industry as a solution to it. They oppose the European Union, but support joining North American Free Trade Agreement, despite its obvious failure. "

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" I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it. "

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" War is the greatest failure of mankind. "