Its actually really important that you succeed at what youre succeeding at, but that isnt going to be the measure of your… — 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
Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in… — 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
In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a… — 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
“…I came to understand that while many of us might default to measuring our lives by summary statistics, such as number of… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
My conclusion: Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something and it doesn't work and it takes confidence to… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
In organizations, once you articulate how success will be measured, everybody tries to game the system so that they are measured in… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
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 Image
What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
