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I'm an optimistic person.
You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.
Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.
Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances.
I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?
People under-invest in family because it doesn't pay off until the long term.
We need to have an understanding of what causes what to happen in the world, and why.
I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.
Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.
There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.
For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.
I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become.
When you improve your product so it does the customer's job better, then you gain market share.
There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.
Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough.
Businesses that distribute information and news are in the business of training and teaching people.
Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well.
Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.
A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers.
This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.
There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.
Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.
My wife comes most of the times I teach and stands on the front row to help me. She's been wonderfully supportive.
Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.
Having a loving relationship with our spouse or with our children is what leads to the long-term happiness we all seek.
Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.
The ability to share the gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest.
The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.
An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.
The basic idea that marketing is wrong at its core is one of the main reasons why innovation seems blocked and unpredictable.
American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.
The concept of disruption is about competitive response; it is not a theory of growth. It's adjacent to growth. But it's not about growth.
By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption.
There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.
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.
I'd been raised Mormon, but there comes a time where you are not following what you've been taught, but discovering for yourself if it's true.
Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.
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.
We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries to fund research.
Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.
The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.
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.
No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped.
The key is not to figure out what the best people are doing and try to emulate it - rather, figure out what causes people and companies to be successful.
In organizations, once you articulate how success will be measured, everybody tries to game the system so that they are measured in the best possible way.
The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.
I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.
Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.
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.
Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.