Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
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. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Innovation simply isn't as unpredictable as many people think. There isn't a cookbook yet, but we're getting there. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Investing in our people is going to be costly and scarce - we need to start doing that! — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
People under-invest in family because it doesn't pay off until the long term. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
People still cling to this belief that innovation is just random and unpredictable. But if you look closely, there are some real… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too. So many young people I speak… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I've concluded that getting the categories right is an absolutely crucial step to building useful management theory, and unfortunately too few writers… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
People don't actually want to think about their own health and don't take action until they are sick. Yet employers are very… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become. We can articulate the… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The only useful information about the market will be what I create through expeditions into the market, through testing and probing, trial… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Year after year after year, people write books about managing innovation or about leadership, for example, without ever going through the pain… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
And if your attitude is that only smarter people have something to teach you, your learning opportunities will be very limited. ...… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen,… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
One of the factors that make great companies so great is that they have processes that allow them to solve difficult problems… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I don't have my finger on the pulse of corruption in China, but I think most people on the ground would say… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
At the beginning of almost every industry, the available products and services are so expensive to own and complicated to use that… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
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.… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to build on the work of a number of people who had already run laps around this theory-building… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
If we are to develop profound theory to solve the intractable problems in our societally-critical domains... we must learn to crawl into… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management;… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
People who have the drive to achieve spend most of their time on what brings them the most tangible, immediate sense of… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Inviting others to help us with our work in the Church helps them feel needed and helps them feel the Spirit. When… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
While I wouldn't say that most entrepreneurs find it easy to get funding, there are certainly more people out there funding technology… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The way I ought to measure my life is in terms of the others I helped to become better and happier people.… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
We are all trained to be data driven people, but no hard data exist about the future. Therefore, the only way to… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The important thing is that over time, scientific progress transforms things that used to have to be dealt with in a problem-solving… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job.… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
If you're successful and growing, you can manage any way you want to. Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can compete on… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
I think this is one reason why the Lord invented the Internet - so members can teach one another how to succeed in assignments… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
Because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
At the beginning of almost every industry, the available products and services are so expensive to own and complicated to use that only people… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product architecture is… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
When you're thinking about your next product or current product and wondering how to make it different so you don't have competition, understand the… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share
