Clayton Christensen

Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater.

— Clayton Christensen

Lets take the best of our ideas from Global Drucker Forum, and the best of our language, and then focus and clarify.

— Clayton Christensen

Children build self-esteem by doing things that are hard and learning what works.

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Clayton Christensen

Having a loving relationship with our spouse or with our children is what leads to the long-term happiness we all seek.

— Clayton Christensen

How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Clayton Christensen

The only useful information about the market will be what I create through expeditions into the market, through testing and probing, trial…

— Clayton Christensen

In 15 years from now half of US universities may be in bankruptcy ... in the end I'm excited to see that…

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Clayton Christensen

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

Understanding motivation is one of the most important things we can do in our lives, because it has such a bearing on…

— Clayton Christensen

I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee,…

— Clayton Christensen

Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the…

— Clayton Christensen

In the first stage of insight-building, all that researchers can do is observe phenomena. Second, they classify the phenomena in a way…

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Clayton Christensen

We have found that companies need to speak a common language, because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are…

— Clayton Christensen

In my first career I had founded my own company, with a group of MIT professors, before coming to Harvard to finish…

— Clayton Christensen

Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that's the gate through which…

— Clayton Christensen

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

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

— Clayton Christensen

Investing in our people is going to be costly and scarce - we need to start doing that!

— Clayton Christensen

When you improve your product so it does the customer's job better, then you gain market share.

— Clayton Christensen

Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.

— Clayton Christensen

...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

People under-invest in family because it doesn't pay off until the long term.

— Clayton Christensen

I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Clayton Christensen

A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical…

— Clayton Christensen

Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital…

— Clayton Christensen

If you ask the average guy on the street to name five companies that have truly transformed themselves over the few decades,…

— Clayton Christensen

Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.

— Clayton Christensen

The innovations are far more important because the technology itself has now way to impact the world for good until it's embedded…

— Clayton Christensen

The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as…

— Clayton Christensen

If I know what to spec, and I can measure it, and there are no unpredictable interdependencies between what you do and…

— Clayton Christensen

If the technology is disruptive, on the other hand, the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will…

— Clayton Christensen