Best Clayton Christensen Sayings
- I don't view it as mystic. I believe that God is our father. He created us. He is powerful because he knows everything. Therefore everything… Believe
- Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time. All
- There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lacklustre, or by which the wrong idea gets put forward. Business
- I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail? Big
- Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge… Cater
- I had a horrible heart attack and still have symptoms of that sometimes. Then cancer, which is in remission. But the stroke is the hardest… Ability
- Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better. Adding
- As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product… Almost Always
- Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only… Become Actually
- I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become. Articulate
- The world is a nested space, and so we have our brain as a person, and people are members of teams, and teams are part… Brain
- What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through… Articulate
- By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption. Company
- The key is not to figure out what the best people are doing and try to emulate it - rather, figure out what causes people… Best
- For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core. Core
- There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations. Affect
- In a healthy economy, empowering, sustaining and efficiency innovations operate in balance. A healthy economy creates and sustains more jobs before squeezing out inefficiencies. Balance
- American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet. American
- The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when it is scarce. But capital is abundant. If we are to… Abundant
- A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of… Business
- When a company identifies how to integrate the processes needed to give the consumer a sense of job completion, it can blow away the competition.… Blow
- The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends. Close
- There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too. Career
- One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed to innovation that they will give the innovators a lot of… Committed
- Every city and town in America would be bankrupt if they kept their books the way private-sector companies keep their books - because of the… America
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