Clayton Christensen Quotes

You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go.

The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all rely on you. Being a leader is a 24-hour-a-day job.

I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

I've been fortunate to work with Alfre Woodard and Jeffrey Wright; people who are artists, have careers, longevity and full lives. That looks good to me.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

There is no primer for being an NFL owner. It is learn-as-you-go.

Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.

I've been preparing to run a big company all my life.

I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

I've run businesses with thousands of people. I've run businesses with 10 people.

I'm running a business.

When a manager calls you and says you are part of his plans and that he trusts you, then you will give everything for him.

I cannot thank Don DeDonatis enough for his leadership of USSSA, his stewardship of our business initiatives, and his friendship to me over the years.

Wherever I played, I had an opportunity to show my attributes.

Doug Collins - people just underestimate him.

Virat Kohli is someone I have great respect for.

Zizou has been a leader wherever he has played. He was the captain of France, a World Cup winner and been a winner in all the clubs he played for. So he has enough experience to handle and manage a group. More importantly, he is a man who everyone respects.

If you wanna be your own boss, you gotta work your way up - have the skills.

I always had a deep respect for people who started businesses, but now I cherish them. There's a lot of anxiety and blood, sweat, and tears that goes into this, and I love it.

The thing that helped me most when I started my own business was my experience as the president and PR director of student associations in college. Because of that I knew how to create and run an organization and how to really make things - even hard things - happen.

I have a lot of respect for Kawhi.