Successful Quotes by Clayton Christensen

10 Successful quotes by Clayton Christensen

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Clayton Christensen’s insights on success are distilled into ten short remarks, each reflecting his analytical approach. This tiny collection serves as a quick reference for his view on achievement.

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

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People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you…

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The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the…

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Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something and it doesn't work and it takes confidence to…

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In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue…

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If you're successful and growing, you can manage any way you want to. Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's…

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There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too. So many young people I speak…

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In general, the questions that are on our mind are the same questions that have been driving our work over the past…

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Often they [writers on the study of management] have a point of view based upon intuition and experience. They then offer a…

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It is when the product is not good enough that proprietary integration gives you a competitive edge. You cannot outsource and be…

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But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff…

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In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between…

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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.…

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People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying…

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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…

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A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers.

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Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.

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The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can compete on…

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What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone.

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This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

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I think this is one reason why the Lord invented the Internet - so members can teach one another how to succeed in assignments…

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Because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort…

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At the beginning of almost every industry, the available products and services are so expensive to own and complicated to use that only people…

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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…

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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…

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