By the time it becomes obvious that a technology will have truly disruptive impact, it is often too late to take action.… — 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
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
How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past? — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake is an over-reliance on data. Managers will say if there are no data they can take no action. However,… — 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
Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time. — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee,… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
...it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time. — 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
The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as… — 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
