Want Quotes by Clayton Christensen

10 Want quotes by Clayton Christensen

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Christensen’s ten lines distill his thinking on why we pursue change, offering a compact, business‑savvy view of desire.

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Businesses want to think in terms of categories. Consumers want us to think in terms of their needs.

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Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.

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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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The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus…

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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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We decided that humility was defined not by self-deprecating behavior or attitudes but by the esteem with which you regard others... Generally,…

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Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven't asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It…

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If you want to make better theory, you've got to use the best that's available and look through the lens of another…

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I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become. We can articulate the…

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People don't actually want to think about their own health and don't take action until they are sick. Yet employers are very…

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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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