A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN The basic idea that marketing is wrong at its core is one of the main reasons why innovation seems b...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Disruption is continuously afoot in every industry, but especially in autos. It is how Toyota, Nissa...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-1...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, h...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contri...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our fa...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN To focus capital and entrepreneurship into empowering innovation, we should change is the capital ga...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers an...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN I think this is one reason why the Lord invented the Internet - so members can teach one another how...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good a...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become. We can ...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN The iPod is a proprietary integrated product, although that is becoming quite modular. You can downl...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It's...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN If we are to develop profound theory to solve the intractable problems in our societally-critical do...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies c...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN If you understand cause and effect, it brings about a set of insights that leads you to a very diffe...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN I don't have my finger on the pulse of corruption in China, but I think most people on the groun...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scrip...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN During the early stages of an industry, when the functionality and reliability of a product isn'...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process,...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable val...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and servi...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN I don't feel that this concept of disruptive technology is the solution for everybody. But I thi...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN There just isn't anything more invigorating than to read an article or hear about an entrepreneu...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Holiday Inn comes in at the bottom of the market, but they can't go upmarket except if they emul...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too. So many ...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the ...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN I love my life as a missionary, keeping myself on the front lines. The image in my mind is that God,...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Finding a 'sacrificial lamb' on whom to tag blame for complicated problems is an important i...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN When you improve your product so it does the customer's job better, then you gain market share.
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN 'Disruption' is, at its core, a really powerful idea. Everyone hijacks the idea to do whatev...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN The first two lessons, which we learned early in our efforts to be good member missionaries, have ma...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Every city and town in America would be bankrupt if they kept their books the way private-sector com...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a ma...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN For online universities, like Liverpool and the University of Phoenix, if prices drop by 60%, they s...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Managers are already voracious consumers of theory. Every time they make a decision or take action, ...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to h...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustainin...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN I got Type 1 diabetes at 30. It hit me in 1982 when I was a White House Fellow in Washington. I had ...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Participants of this workshop are living in their own silos and need to come to a consensus on the b...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN But every once in a while we see a different kind of technology come into an industry, and we call t...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look ...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN When a company identifies how to integrate the processes needed to give the consumer a sense of job ...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. T...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost ec...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, h...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to mak...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, ...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN The financial doctrines so zealously followed by American companies might help optimize capital when...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our fa...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN By definition, big data cannot yield complicated descriptions of causality. Especially in healthcare...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers an...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something ...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN I wouldn't say there isn't a direct path to a successful career. There are people who knew e...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students....
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the ...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN Holiday Inn comes in at the bottom of the market, but they can't go upmarket except if they emul...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large port...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost a...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN Most marketers think there's a concept called a product life cycle. Once you realize that the wo...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN There are a lot of companies - not just Sony and Kodak - that have spent a lot of money trying to ma...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and sel...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN In a healthy economy, empowering, sustaining and efficiency innovations operate in balance. A health...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN I'd been raised Mormon, but there comes a time where you are not following what you've been ...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my resear...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN To measure market needs, I would watch carefully what customers do, not simply listen to what they s...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN I had a horrible heart attack and still have symptoms of that sometimes. Then cancer, which is in re...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN Every city and town in America would be bankrupt if they kept their books the way private-sector com...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when t...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustainin...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN Relative to the taxi industry, Uber is a sustaining innovation; that is, it makes customers' liv...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea.
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN It's easier to hold your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold them 98 percent of th...
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform pas...
ADAM CLAYTON It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of sh...
ADAM CLAYTON I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember gett...
ADAM CLAYTON The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now...
ADAM CLAYTON There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the ...
ADAM CLAYTON I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just...
ADAM CLAYTON For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else.
ADAM CLAYTON I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.
ADAM CLAYTON You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.
ADAM CLAYTON I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out sho...
ADAM CLAYTON Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.
ADAM CLAYTON I was drawn to things I thought were either sexy or aggressive - or both.
ADAM CLAYTON I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 ...
ADAM CLAYTON Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, ...
ADAM CLAYTON Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and ...
ADAM CLAYTON A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
ADAM CLAYTON If you believe in a cause, you must be willing to put yourself on the line for that cause.
ADAM CLAYTON The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.
ADAM CLAYTON From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I t...
ADAM CLAYTON I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
GARRETT CLAYTON I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood....
GARRETT CLAYTON I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
GARRETT CLAYTON By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month ...
GARRETT CLAYTON We all fall in love with someone for the person they are - not because of their race, their hair, or...
GARRETT CLAYTON There's all these idealistic things that TV and movies tell you that you should want to be. And ...
GARRETT CLAYTON I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn&...
GARRETT CLAYTON After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enoug...
GARRETT CLAYTON I haven't been brought down because people are focused on who I'm dating, what I'm eatin...
GARRETT CLAYTON I don't really like talking about my personal life. I like a certain amount of veil.
GARRETT CLAYTON I'm a hot mess when it comes to any physical activity. My body just pours sweat. Not a lot of pe...
GARRETT CLAYTON I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so muc...
GARRETT CLAYTON I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, li...
GARRETT CLAYTON Entitled people drive me insane. The world owes you nothing! Get over it!
GARRETT CLAYTON In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.
POWELL CLAYTON For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else.
ADAM CLAYTON Don't get
me started. I love it.
ADAM CLAYTON Don't get me started. I love it.
ADAM CLAYTON Don't get me started. I love it.
ADAM CLAYTON Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.
ADAM CLAYTON A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
ADAM CLAYTON [It has been a frantic time, this year of Africa. The other members of the band love the cause but t...
ADAM CLAYTON The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
WILLIAM CLAYTON The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.
BILL CLAYTON The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them
WILLIAM CLAYTON The dumber people think you are, the most surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
WILLIAM CLAYTON I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's...
CLAYTON MOORE I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&...
MERRY CLAYTON Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.
JOHN CLAYTON There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from th...
JOHN CLAYTON All holidays can be good times.
JOHN CLAYTON Just as a puppy can be more of a challenge than a gift, so too can the holidays.
JOHN CLAYTON Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian sy...
JOHN CLAYTON Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questi...
JOHN CLAYTON I knew how to sing in choirs and sing in church, but I didn't know how to sing in a studio. That...
MERRY CLAYTON We explained our financial circumstances and the different direction we are going to take,
BILL CLAYTON The foundation appreciates the many years of service Jim Snyder provided as director, ... He leaves ...
BILL CLAYTON We want somebody who is experienced in national and international fundraising. We have to continue t...
BILL CLAYTON The foundation has determined we want to go in a different direction, and it's time for a change, .....
BILL CLAYTON I'm concerned that before we get to 6,500- 7,000 cubic feet per second (flood stage), we'll have mor...
BILL CLAYTON The site is fenced off. It's in an area not being used by the event and it's being monitored by myse...
BILL CLAYTON I'm really open-minded, musically. The credo I ascribe to is, 'Take care of the music, and l...
GERALD CLAYTON Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.
JOHN CLAYTON Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.
JOHN CLAYTON My family is part Creole, and we're Indian, and we're also very, very black. My father was s...
MERRY CLAYTON I have always said every good thing is divinely sent from heaven.
MERRY CLAYTON For their planet was soaked in human tears as volatile as gasoline, and if the match struck, it woul...
EMMA CLAYTON All four of the public tower companies are bidding.
CLAYTON MORAN These are the days for strong men to courageously expose wrong.
POWELL CLAYTON Coming to Princeton was no different than Penn State. It's just a difference in the color of the uni...
STAN CLAYTON The way they wrote was really intriguing.
VIRGINIA CLAYTON I am anticipating a pretty rough year. I talked to a landowner this morning who is trying to shoot a...
CLAYTON WOLF Mincemeat is decidedly British in its nature and can therefore be disregarded entirely where most ci...
CLAYTON SMITH I was out in the backyard catching balls.
MARK CLAYTON That makes me think it went down very quickly and it would have been absolute panic on board ... (Th...
RICHARD CLAYTON Tar Heel would always come through and just pound North State. But it was fun, and I think it's alwa...
CLAYTON MCCULLOUGH Anytime you can hold a team to no points in a quarter you'll have a good shot to win. We were really...
CLAYTON TURK Once I got the Lone Ranger role, I didn't want any other.
CLAYTON MOORE I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for ...
CLAYTON MOORE Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressi...
POWELL CLAYTON I think the main focus as a musician should be to play the music you love to play, and the rest is g...
GERALD CLAYTON I've been doing this for too long to watch it slide out of my hands like that.
CLAYTON LEROY Being the only qualifier from River Valley hurts a little bit. But it helps being with the Pleasant ...
CLAYTON WETZEL We are going to find out who is a good manager. Everyone is a good deer manager in wet years.
CLAYTON WOLF She's so versatile. She can out rebound taller people, she's a quick jumper and she has a nose for t...
CORY CLAYTON You could have asked anything but that. I'll tell you how old I am. I was born in 1914. I'll let you...
CLAYTON MOORE I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our...
CLAYTON MOORE I often meet adults in their 30s, 40s, or 50s who, as soon as they recognize me, suddenly become six...
CLAYTON MOORE I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for ...
CLAYTON MOORE Hark! I hear a white horse coming!
CLAYTON MOORE He constantly worked on the growth. He was really pro-active and the lessons he taught carried over.
CLAYTON DOWNING I'm appalled at those kinds of things, I think we all are,
JOHN CLAYTON There's not at a hint he's ever misused his passport.
CLAYTON RUBY What we've offering our colleagues in the flu business is to now mine that data themselves and to co...
CLAYTON NAEVE I looked down the roster and I saw four sophomores in the starting lineup for White River. There is ...
CLAYTON RANDALL