Quotes by Clayton Christensen

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

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In organizations, once you articulate how success will be measured, everybody tries to game the system so that they are measured in the best possible way.

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The key is not to figure out what the best people are doing and try to emulate it - rather, figure out what causes people and companies to be successful.

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

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Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

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

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I got Type 1 diabetes at 30. It hit me in 1982 when I was a White House Fellow in Washington. I had viral pneumonia. I lost 35 pounds in six weeks. And I couldn't see anything. Everything was blurry. I was always thirsty.

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

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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 capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation.

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

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There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations.

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The ability to share the gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest.

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Understanding motivation is one of the most important things we can do in our lives, because it has such a bearing on why we do the things we do and whether we enjoy them or not.

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

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Finding a 'sacrificial lamb' on whom to tag blame for complicated problems is an important instrument in the toolkit of politicians, because it deflects blame for the nation's economic woes away from their own regulatory lapses, economic mismanagemen...

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If you develop a product that gets what the customer is trying to get done, you don't have to advertise; people will just pull it into their lives.

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Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.

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There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.

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I think this is one reason why the Lord invented the Internet - so members can teach one another how to succeed in assignments the Lord has given us, and to give us opportunities to inspire and bear testimony in a horizontal way.

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Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism, even as eager entrepreneurs can't get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained, 'Water, water everywhere - nor any drop to drink.'

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