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How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?

Having a loving relationship with our spouse or with our children is what leads to the long-term happiness we all seek.

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.

The best strategy is a balance between having a deliberate one, and a flexible, or emergent strategy.

Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater.

Innovation simply isn't as unpredictable as many people think. There isn't a cookbook yet, but we're getting there.

Lets take the best of our ideas from Global Drucker Forum, and the best of our language, and then focus and clarify.

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

Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well,

In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue a truly disruptive strategy.

The basic idea that marketing is wrong at its core is one of the main reasons why innovation seems blocked and unpredictable.

Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well.

There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.

Children build self-esteem by doing things that are hard and learning what works.

If you take away religion, you can't hire enough police.

For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.

It is a company's customers who effectively control what it can and cannot do.

There needs to be conviction and action behind rules.

I'm an optimistic person.

You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.

This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

When you improve your product so it does the customer's job better, then you gain market share.

Investing in our people is going to be costly and scarce - we need to start doing that!

Its actually really important that you succeed at what youre succeeding at, but that isnt going to be the measure of your life.

Businesses want to think in terms of categories. Consumers want us to think in terms of their needs.

If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.

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.

Businesses that distribute information and news are in the business of training and teaching people.

Do not be deceived by impostors.

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.

Watching how customers actually use a product provides much more reliable information than can be gleaned from a verbal interview or a focus group.

Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.

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

It's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.

A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers.

Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances.

Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.

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.

If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.

I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.

We need to have an understanding of what causes what to happen in the world, and why.

Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.

Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.

What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone.

You can't find returns in investments you haven't made.