When you're thinking about your next product or current product and wondering how to make it different so you don't have competition,… — 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
There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in… — 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
Most companies think of disruption as a threat. But disruptive innovations have tremendous growth potential. If incumbent companies can learn how to… — 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
Businesses want to think in terms of categories. Consumers want us to think in terms of their needs. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers… — 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
