Quotes from Clayton Christensen

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.

The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

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

Every time you take someone figuratively by the hand and introduce him or her to Jesus Christ, you will feel how deeply our Savior loves you and loves the person whose hand is in yours.

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

The parents of teenagers would love to have a car that won't go very far or go very fast. They could just cruise around the neighborhood, drive it to school, see their friends, plug it in overnight.

I came to understand that while many of us might default to measuring our lives by summary statistics, such as number of people presided over, number of awards, or dollars accumulated in a bank, and so on, the only metrics that will truly matter to my life are the individuals whom I have been able to help, one by one, to become better people.

Will flash cards invade the disk drive makers' core markets and supplant magnetic memory? If they do, what will happen to the disk drive makers? Will they stay atop their markets, catching this new technological wave? Or will they be driven out?

Alleviating poverty is not the same as creating prosperity. The prosperity paradox

Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.

The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.

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.

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