1. “Management teams aren’t good at asking question. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.”
2. “Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.”
3. “Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.”
4. “If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.”
5. “What you need is a fundamental humility – the belief that you can learn from anyone.”
6. “It’s actually really important that you succeed at what you’re succeeding at, but that isn’t going to be the measure of your life.”
7. “Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want.”
8. “Management is the most noble of professions if it’s practiced well.”
9. “Innovation simply isn’t as unpredictable as many people think. There isn’t a cookbook yet, but we’re getting there.”
10. “You can’t find returns in investments you haven’t made.”
11. “Doing deals doesn’t yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.”
12. “Businesses want to think in terms of categories. Consumers want us to think in terms of their needs.”
13. “A innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they’re already doing in their lives done better.”
14. “Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.”
15. “There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.”
16. “Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroys them.”
17. “You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn’t care.”
18. “The best strategy is a balance having a deliberate one, and a flexible, or emergent strategy.”
19. “Children build self-esteem by doing things that are hard and learning what works.”
20. “How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?.”
21. “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.”
22. “Watching how customers actually use a product provides much more reliable information can be gleaned from a verbal interview or a focus group.”
23. “I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.”
24. “It is company’s customers who effectively control what it can and cannot do.”
25. “Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.”
26. “If the technology is disruptive on the other hand the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will have been toppled and new companies will be on top.”
27. “Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances.”
28. “The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is he relationships we have with our family and close friends.”
29. “There needs to be conviction and action behind rules.”
30. “There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.”
