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Innovation Quotes by Clayton Christensen
- Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.
- Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.
- Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something and it doesn't work and it takes confidence to say we haven't…
- Innovation simply isn't as unpredictable as many people think. There isn't a cookbook yet, but we're getting there.
- The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no…
- 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…
- 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…
- A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers.
- The basic idea that marketing is wrong at its core is one of the main reasons why innovation seems blocked and unpredictable.
- Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of…
- To focus capital and entrepreneurship into empowering innovation, we should change is the capital gains tax rate. We would be better served by a regressive…
- The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as identifying disruptive developments…
More Innovation Quotes
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. — Francis Bacon
- Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that… — Steve Ballmer
- You can only be as good as you dare to be bad. — John Barrymore
- The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation. — Sandy Adams
- Any good music must be an innovation. — Les Baxter
- When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. — Joseph Addison
- It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause… — Tony Benn
- Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right… — Jeff Bezos
- I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box… — Jeff Bezos
- I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. — William Blake
- What is now proved was once only imagined. — William Blake