Core Quote by Clayton Christensen

But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff…

— Clayton Christensen

In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between…

— Clayton Christensen

Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job.…

— Clayton Christensen

People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying…

— Clayton Christensen

If you're successful and growing, you can manage any way you want to. Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth…

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Clayton Christensen

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

— 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

I think this is one reason why the Lord invented the Internet - so members can teach one another how to succeed in assignments…

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Clayton Christensen