Category: Thought for Today

5th Thought for today: ‘In order to really find happiness, you need to continue looking for opportunities that you believe are meaningful, in which you will be able to learn new things, to succeed, and be given more and more responsibility to shoulder.’ — Clayton Christensen #thoughtfortoday #happiness #purpose #meaning #claytonchristensen This week, seven quotes from one person. Christensen…

Thought for today: ‘People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.’ — Clayton Christensen #thoughtfortoday #innovation #marketing #needvswant #claytonchristensen This week, seven quotes from one person. Christensen was the author of The Innovators Dilemma and How Will You Measure Your Life? He started a conversation and triggered thoughts (and resistance)…

Thought for today:   ‘It’s easier to hold your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold them 98 percent of the time.’   — Clayton Christensen   #thoughtfortoday #principles #values #holdthem #claytonchristensen   This week, seven quotes from one person.   You might not know his name, but he wrote a…

Thought for today: ‘Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.’ — Clayton Christensen #thoughtfortoday #loving #relationships #family #friends #joy Something different this week. Seven quotes from one person. You probably don’t know his name, but he wrote a game-changing…

Thought for today: ‘Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.’ — David Brooks #thoughtfortoday #entrepreneurship #success #betterfuture #icandothis You don’t have to resolve global crises to make the future better than the present. Small things add up…

Thought for today: ‘The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.’ — Vidal Sassoon #thoughtfortoday #entrepreneurship #success #before #work I will often ask a client what success means to them. It is rare that I get an “internal” answer – such as fulfilment. I often get an “external” answer – how…

Thought for today: ‘Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.’ — Theodore Roosevelt #thoughtfortoday #entrepreneur #workhard #worthit It took me a while to find this. I worked hard, in three different industries. Only now have I found something truly worth doing…

Thought for today: ‘It’s not just about being better. It’s about being different. You need to give people a reason to choose your business’ — Tom Abbott #thoughtfortoday #entrepreneur #better #different If you’ve read your Michael Porter you will know this. The essence of competitive strategy is differentiation. Being unique is not necessarily a good…

Thought for today: ‘Entrepreneurs are the only people who will work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.’ — Lori Greiner #thoughtfortoday #entrepreneur #80hourweek #40hourweek #worknotwork The thing is, it just isn’t work to me. I get to choose what I do. I get to choose who I do it with.…

Thought for today: ‘The distinguishing mark of the executive responsibility is that it requires not merely conformance to a complex code of morals but also the creation of moral codes for others.’ — Chester Irving Barnard (1938) #thoughtfortoday #executive #responsibility #creation #morals Considering when this was written, by a pioneer in management and organisational studies,…