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I think [the Vista fiasco] will allow [Apple] to survive for a bit longer.

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

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

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

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

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Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.

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Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of just this once.

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[Descriptive research provides] an accurate description or picture of the status or characteristics of a situation or phenomenon.

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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.

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Low-end disruption occurs when the rate at which products improve exceeds the rate at which customers can adopt the new performance.

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Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.

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

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Generally, you can be humble only if you feel really good about yourself — and you want to help those around you feel really good about themselves.

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

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Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.

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This is one of the innovator's dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.

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So the people using the Android operating system are now Motorola, Samsung, LG. And they are killing Apple: now, Android accounts for about 80 percent of the market.

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Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation, into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.

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