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Understand and harness the principles of disruptive innovation.
— Clayton M Christensen
How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?
— Clayton Christensen
Having a loving relationship with our spouse or with our children is what leads to the long-term happiness we all seek.
— Clayton Christensen
I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.
— Clayton Christensen
Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.
— Clayton M Christensen
People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.
— Clayton M Christensen
The best strategy is a balance between having a deliberate one, and a flexible, or emergent strategy.
— Clayton Christensen
you perfect results. What I can promise you is that you won't get it right if you don't commit to keep trying.
— Clayton M Christensen
You'll see that without theory, we're at sea without a sextant.
— Clayton M Christensen
Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance.
— Clayton M Christensen
I'd been raised Mormon, but there comes a time where you are not following what you've been taught, but discovering for yourself if it's true.
— Clayton M Christensen
If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.
— Clayton M Christensen
I had thought the destination was what was important, but it turned out it was the journey.
— Clayton M Christensen
American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.
— Clayton M Christensen
In fact, how you allocate your own resources can make your life turn out to be exactly as you hope or very different from what you intend.
— Clayton M Christensen
An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.
— Clayton M Christensen
School is one of the things that children might hire to do the job. But the job is that children need to feel successful - every
— Clayton M Christensen
Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough.
— Clayton M Christensen
The basic idea that marketing is wrong at its core is one of the main reasons why innovation seems blocked and unpredictable.
— Clayton Christensen
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.
— Clayton Christensen
Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well,
— Clayton Christensen
My wife comes most of the times I teach and stands on the front row to help me. She's been wonderfully supportive.
— Clayton M Christensen
Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well.
— Clayton Christensen
People under-invest in family because it doesn't pay off until the long term.
— Clayton Christensen
Lets take the best of our ideas from Global Drucker Forum, and the best of our language, and then focus and clarify.
— Clayton Christensen
Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater.
— Clayton Christensen
There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.
— Clayton Christensen
Children build self-esteem by doing things that are hard and learning what works.
— Clayton Christensen
A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers.
— Clayton Christensen
Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.
— Clayton M Christensen
Remember that it is changes in the slope of the platform, not the level of the platform, that create shareholder value at an above-average rate.
— Clayton M Christensen
For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.
— Clayton Christensen
It is a company's customers who effectively control what it can and cannot do.
— Clayton Christensen
Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.
— Clayton M Christensen
There needs to be conviction and action behind rules.
— Clayton Christensen
I'm an optimistic person.
— Clayton Christensen
You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.
— Clayton Christensen
As such, there is no one-size-fits-all approach that anyone can offer you. The hot water that softens a carrot will harden an egg.
— Clayton M Christensen
This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.
— Clayton Christensen
When you improve your product so it does the customer's job better, then you gain market share.
— Clayton Christensen
Investing in our people is going to be costly and scarce - we need to start doing that!
— Clayton Christensen
Its actually really important that you succeed at what youre succeeding at, but that isnt going to be the measure of your life.
— Clayton Christensen
Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.
— Clayton Christensen
The ability to share the Gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest.
— Clayton Christensen
Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.
— Clayton Christensen
There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.
— Clayton M Christensen
Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances.
— Clayton Christensen
Businesses want to think in terms of categories. Consumers want us to think in terms of their needs.
— Clayton Christensen
It's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.
— Clayton Christensen
Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them.
— Clayton Christensen
Resources are what he uses to do it, processes are how he does it, and priorities are why he does it.
— Clayton M Christensen
Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.
— Clayton Christensen
If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.
— Clayton Christensen
Watching how customers actually use a product provides much more reliable information than can be gleaned from a verbal interview or a focus group.
— Clayton Christensen
Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.
— Clayton Christensen
There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.
— Clayton Christensen
Do not be deceived by impostors.
— Clayton Christensen
It's easier to hold your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold them 98 percent of the time.
— Clayton M Christensen
Businesses that distribute information and news are in the business of training and teaching people.
— Clayton Christensen
If you develop a product that gets what the customer is trying to get done, you don't have to advertise; people will just pull it into their lives.
— Clayton Christensen
If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it.
— Clayton Christensen
Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.
— Clayton M Christensen
Innovation simply isn't as unpredictable as many people think. There isn't a cookbook yet, but we're getting there.
— Clayton Christensen
You can't find returns in investments you haven't made.
— Clayton Christensen
Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of just this once.
— Clayton M Christensen
If you take away religion, you can't hire enough police.
— Clayton Christensen
For innovators, understanding the job is to understand what consumers care most about in that moment of trying to make progress.
— Clayton M Christensen
We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries to fund research.
— Clayton M Christensen
What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone.
— Clayton Christensen
By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption.
— Clayton M Christensen
There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.
— Clayton M Christensen
Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.
— Clayton Christensen
I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?
— Clayton M Christensen
Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.
— Clayton Christensen
The concept of disruption is about competitive response; it is not a theory of growth. It's adjacent to growth. But it's not about growth.
— Clayton M Christensen
We need to have an understanding of what causes what to happen in the world, and why.
— Clayton Christensen
Disruptive technologies typically enable new markets to emerge.
— Clayton M Christensen
I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.
— Clayton Christensen