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People Quotes by Clayton Christensen
- Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.
- I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars but the individual people whose lives I've touched.
- I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars, but the individual people whose lives I've touched. I think that's…
- 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.…
- Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.
- 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…
- Innovation simply isn't as unpredictable as many people think. There isn't a cookbook yet, but we're getting there.
- And if your attitude is that only smarter people have something to teach you, your learning opportunities will be very limited. ... When we see…
- When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I…
- Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only…
- I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become.
- The world is a nested space, and so we have our brain as a person, and people are members of teams, and teams are part…
- The key is not to figure out what the best people are doing and try to emulate it - rather, figure out what causes people…
- 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…
- Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are…
- I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become. We can articulate the culture that we…
- There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too. So many young people I speak to nowadays think…
- 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,…
- If we are to develop profound theory to solve the intractable problems in our societally-critical domains... we must learn to crawl into the life of…
- There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.
- People who have the drive to achieve spend most of their time on what brings them the most tangible, immediate sense of success. Investments in…
- Businesses that distribute information and news are in the business of training and teaching people.
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle