J.L.Clayton Quotes

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.

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.

Successful couples love each other with complete devotion

I felt like if I just gave my heart to what I was doing, I would automatically be a star.

I'm not the guy you kill. I'm the guy you buy! Are you so blind that you don't even see what I am? I sold out Arthur for 80 grand. I'm your easiest problem and you're gonna kill me?

One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.

Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.

Just because we didn't work out as a couple didn't mean we couldn't work together, right?

The right woman for you wouldn't want you to change anything about your life. She wouldn't rock your boat, she'd jump right in and sail it with you.

Well, considering my entire life, now seems rules by odd coincidences, I figure it's right on track.

Peace talk when war is impending is hazardous for the talker, and in war time it is criminal. War talk in peace time, which is infinitely more wicked, runs no risk at all.

The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit.

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

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

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

But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff you will fall; you don't have to collect data on that.

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

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

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

There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lacklustre, or by which the wrong idea gets put forward.

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

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

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.

Because of the disruption phenomenon - technological progress outstripping the ability of customers to utilize it - the general tendency is for the money to migrate toward the subsystems.

There needs to be conviction and action behind rules.

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

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.

Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.

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.

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Ultimately, when you come up with a classification scheme that is collectively exhaustive and mutually exclusive, then the theory can become what Kuhn called a paradigm.

In the study of management, unfortunately, many writers have been so anxious to articulate a theory in the form of, "If you do this, this will result," that they never go through this careful effort.

My definition of social justice: those who refuse to work deserve to go hungry.

No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery.

I confess to getting quickly bored by one style of expression, and I like to experiment with all different sorts of modes. I rebel against familiar tools.

Carlos Ruiz has been there, done that. I've seen it firsthand. He's gotten huge hits off me before in the post-season. He's been there. He's calm. He's confident back there.

I'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines.

I don't really believe in that "you need to make them come to you" kind of thing. I'm like, I'll come to her and if she's cool I'll stick around, and if she's not, then I'll leave at any time.

I really believe in the value of just being more present with the people you're around.

I still feel my generation is split on their attitudes.

I find that half of people I meet are open and want the world to love and be loved, but there are others who are bigoted and hurtful, and want to vote for Trump.

Recognizing the Savior's spiritual light begins with our willingness to believe.

Faith is the foundation of every virtue that strengthens marriage.

It's a time for us to take counsel from God rather than give him counsel about all the things we think he ought to be doing.

Mommies can't look gross!' J.J. protested.

We didn't know each other well enough yet to risk mucking around in any real way in each other's lives.

Not every book is for every reader.

we could hurt each other even when we weren't trying to, and that none of us was as perfect as we liked to pretend.

Carole King is one of my dearest friends. Were like family.

My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.