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" Understanding motivation is one of the most important things we can do in our lives, because it has such a bearing on why we do the things we do and whether we enjoy them or not. "

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" There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families. "

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" By definition, big data cannot yield complicated descriptions of causality. Especially in healthcare. Almost all of our diseases occur in the intersections of systems in the body. "

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" Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better. "

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" As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character. "

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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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" In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else. "

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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. "

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" 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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" Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough. "

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" Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them. "

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" I wrote my first piece about the disruption of the Harvard Business School in 1999. Because you could see this coming. I haven't yet done the one about the disruption of the Stanford Business School. "

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" I got Type 1 diabetes at 30. It hit me in 1982 when I was a White House Fellow in Washington. I had viral pneumonia. I lost 35 pounds in six weeks. And I couldn't see anything. Everything was blurry. I was always thirsty. "

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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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" I felt that I could look back on my life and think about lots of folks that I helped become better folks. And I've tried to be as good a man as I could be. "

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" People under-invest in family because it doesn't pay off until the long term. "

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Best

Doing

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Friendship

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" The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends. "

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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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Economic

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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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