Christopher Galvin famous quotes

While we very much regret the impact this will have on certain employees, we must adjust our production capacity to the reality of current business conditions and reduce costs to improve overall financial performance.
-- Christopher Galvin

#Regret #Reality #Impact

The Galvins like to think about certain things that most people think are impossible, and then we like to engage a process to try to make them possible.
-- Christopher Galvin

#Thinking #People #Trying

I took a long view in order to not destroy the core Galvin-defined principles imbued in Motorola, such as constant respect for people, its instincts for breakthrough innovation, and continuous renewal in thinking and process rigor.
-- Christopher Galvin

#Thinking #Views #Order

We Galvins define leadership as 'taking people elsewhere.'
-- Christopher Galvin

#People #Elsewhere

Leading innovation can be a uniquely lonely and unpopular thing because most of the time, you have to stand by yourself saying, "Everybody sees the world this way. I see the world another way."
-- Christopher Galvin

#Lonely #Innovation #World

If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.
-- Christopher Galvin

#Risk #Want #Sometimes

Once people have tried to do something they think is uniquely innovative and it doesn't work, they're actually now more valuable because they know what not to try the next time, or what to try differently.
-- Christopher Galvin

#Thinking #People #Trying

The way that Wall Street works is most people like very steady quarterly earnings, and they like to be very popular instead of unpopular and they don't like to be the nail that sticks up, as they say.
-- Christopher Galvin

#Wall #People #Nails

When does your next idea come? You don't really know yet, and therefore there's a lot of uncertainty associated with innovation companies. Most often, the true innovators have to stand all by themselves at the beginning and predict that the world will be different.
-- Christopher Galvin

#Ideas #Innovation #Doe

Don’t give up. You’ll regret it.

Things worth having don't come easy," Woods said. "You have to fight for it until you're tired of fighting, and then you take a breather and fight some more." He squeezed my shoulder. "Don't give up. You'll regret it.

Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

There's no regrets for me.

Regrets and Mistakes, they're Memories made

To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.

We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.

When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that there is any such thing as an old film; you don't say, 'I read an old book by Flaubert,' or 'I saw an old play by Moliere.'

The thing about tourism is just that it's incredibly powerful. It's like a gun and it's incredibly easy to be irresponsible with it. And the speed of the impact that tourism can have on a place can be quite breathtaking. It doesn't take years, it takes months. That's how quickly it works. And it can be quite a bleak thing to witness.

No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.