Efficiency innovations are a natural part of the economic…

Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans…

— Clayton Christensen

Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering. Efficiency innovators…

— Clayton Christensen

There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.

— Clayton M. Christensen

Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.

— Clayton Christensen

On the upswing of an economic cycle, workers, consumers, savers, investors, and entrepreneurs imagine a future that is brighter than the past. On the…

— Sanjaya Baru

Any organisation has to go through at least one depression to see how it survives, and a normal economic cycle takes seven years.

— Shiv Nadar

There has always been, and there always will be, an economic cycle.

— Nigel Lawson

My first rule - the golden rule - ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and that current…

— Gordon Brown

The core of a virtuous economic cycle lies in wage growth.

— Fumio Kishida

Moreover, for decades we have been prone to far greater swings in the economic cycle than our continental counterparts. It has been boom and…

— Tony Blair

Empowering innovations transform something that is complicated and expensive into something that is so much more simple and affordable that a much larger population…

— Clayton Christensen

The innovations are far more important because the technology itself has now way to impact the world for good until it's embedded in the…

— Clayton Christensen

In an environment where you've got to push innovations out the door fast and keep the cost of innovation low, the probability that you'll…

— Clayton Christensen

The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in efficiency innovations…

— Clayton Christensen

Companies, in fact, are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set up separate…

— Clayton Christensen