Clayton Christensen

Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances.

— Clayton Christensen

Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.

— Clayton Christensen

If you take away religion, you can't hire enough police.

— Clayton Christensen

You can't find returns in investments you haven't made.

— Clayton Christensen

You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.

— Clayton Christensen

There needs to be conviction and action behind rules.

— Clayton Christensen

Do not be deceived by impostors.

— Clayton Christensen

There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.

— Clayton Christensen

Innovation simply isn't as unpredictable as many people think. There isn't a cookbook yet, but we're getting there.

— Clayton Christensen

It is a company's customers who effectively control what it can and cannot do.

— Clayton Christensen

Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well,

— Clayton Christensen

Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.

— Clayton Christensen

Its actually really important that you succeed at what youre succeeding at, but that isnt going to be the measure of your…

— Clayton Christensen

The basic idea that marketing is wrong at its core is one of the main reasons why innovation seems blocked and unpredictable.

— Clayton Christensen

The best strategy is a balance between having a deliberate one, and a flexible, or emergent strategy.

— Clayton Christensen

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

Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programs, or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.

— Clayton Christensen

Every time you take someone figuratively by the hand and introduce him or her to Jesus Christ, you will feel how deeply…

— Clayton Christensen

Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It's when growth stops because you're being disrupted that…

— Clayton Christensen

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit…

— Clayton Christensen

Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people…

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Clayton Christensen

Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for…

— Clayton Christensen

“…I came to understand that while many of us might default to measuring our lives by summary statistics, such as number of…

— Clayton Christensen

The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in…

— Clayton Christensen

I don't have my finger on the pulse of corruption in China, but I think most people on the ground would say…

— Clayton Christensen

India's prosperity is sectioned by geography, such as in Bangalore, where the information technology industry is prominent. Because they have a conduit…

— Clayton Christensen

The transformation at the corporate level was achieved by selling off business units in old markets and by creating new business units…

— Clayton Christensen

To prop up the stock price, managers have to turn down the screws on everybody. That forces them to cancel all the…

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Clayton Christensen

If you understand cause and effect, it brings about a set of insights that leads you to a very different place. The…

— Clayton Christensen

When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen,…

— Clayton Christensen

Every disruptive innovation is powered by a simplifying technology, and then the technology has to get embedded in a different kind of…

— Clayton Christensen

The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business…

— Clayton Christensen

We are all trained to be data driven people, but no hard data exist about the future. Therefore, the only way to…

— Clayton Christensen

Generally, the technology that enables disruption is developed in the companies that are the practitioners of the original technology. That's where the…

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Clayton Christensen

The personal computer was a disruptive innovation relative to the mainframe because it enabled even a poor fool like me to have…

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Clayton Christensen

We need to have an understanding of what causes what to happen in the world, and why.

— Clayton Christensen