Clayton Christensen Quotes
Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.
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I'm not bothered about what others are doing. All I want to do is excel in whatever it is that I do.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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For all things are from the earth and to the earth all things come in the end.
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I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.
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I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual. It's sensual. It's alive!
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Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.
