Clayton M. Christensen Quotes

Clayton M. Christensen
American Author
Born: Apr 6, 1952
Become Innovation Life People Will You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care. Clayton M. Christensen
You Hate Care May Gravity
I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail? Clayton M. Christensen
Me Smart Big Harvard Brought Fail Question Big Question Companies Why
From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students. I decided that, rather than waste the last day of class summarizing the semester, I'd spend my time talking about what I'd learned in life that was useful. Clayton M. Christensen
Life Time Day Class First Year Spend Impart About Rather More My Time Students Faculty Learned Talking Always Semester Than Wanted Decided Much Useful Waste Last
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 thing because I just lost my ability to speak and to write. Clayton M. Christensen
Heart Speak Sometimes Cancer Lost Symptoms Stroke Ability Horrible Attack Write Had Remission Because Still Just The Hardest Thing Which Then Hardest Hardest Thing Thing
Holiday Inn comes in at the bottom of the market, but they can't go upmarket except if they emulate the Four Seasons. So they can go up, but they have to emulate the people they're trying to compete against. They can't disrupt them, because there isn't anything about their model that is extendable upmarket. Clayton M. Christensen
People Market About Except Bottom Because Emulate Go Up Model Trying Anything Holiday Against Them Seasons Inn Four Compete Disrupt
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 of business units, and business units are parts of corporations, and corporations are part of industries, which are part of economies. Clayton M. Christensen
Business People World Space Our Corporations Members Part Economies Industries Parts Brain Person Which Teams Units
The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure. Clayton M. Christensen
Me Failure Business People Water Smart Problems Would Lead Had Smart People Make Just Hold Decisions Theory Reason Why Deeper
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. Clayton M. Christensen
Strong Healthy Own Every Way Must Price Doing Stock Company Keep Margins Disruption
The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late. Clayton M. Christensen
Too Late Problem Problems Past Action Too Late Analytical Analyze Way Enterprise About Data Only Consultants Support Taking Make Condemns Managers Taught Decisions Available Them Ethic Teaching Whole
To become the kind of person you want to become, you've got to have discipline. It's easier to keep to your standards 100 percent of the time versus 98 percent of the time. Clayton M. Christensen
Time You Discipline Become Easier Kind Percent Got Versus Person Want Your Standards Keep
Most people have never thought through how they're going to allocate their time. You need to make a decision in advance. Clayton M. Christensen
Time You People Decision Thought Through Allocate Never Advance Most Make How Going Need
In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else. Clayton M. Christensen
Time Good Family Father Energy Community Strategy Else Our Everything Everything Else Those Member My Time Allocate Becomes Spouse How How Much Lot Personal Going Personal Lives Much Businesses Profession Each Lives Things
For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core. Clayton M. Christensen
Education Higher Education Higher Because Years Technological Core
American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet. Clayton M. Christensen
Service Finance Balance Statements Put Doctrines Sheet American Capitalists Income
No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped. Clayton M. Christensen
Business No Idea Emerges Through Shaped Idea New Half-Baked Becoming Goes Process Then Fully Ever Growth
There are a lot of companies - not just Sony and Kodak - that have spent a lot of money trying to make the quality of the digital images comparable with film. But when you're sending these things over the Internet, they don't have to be high quality. Clayton M. Christensen
You Quality Money Internet Digital Spent High High-Quality Sony Over Make Kodak Lot Trying Sending Just Companies Comparable Film Things Images
I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, however, end up allocating their resources in a way that seriously undermines their intended strategy. Clayton M. Christensen
Life People Seriously Too Many People Met Strategy Too Resources Way Allocating However End Up Intend Intended Fulfilling Many
The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business. Clayton M. Christensen
Business People Innovations Resources Way More Open Tension Come Most Greatest Limited Lot Breakthrough Fundamental Actually
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 obligation cities and towns have taken upon themselves to provide health care for their retirees. Clayton M. Christensen
Health Obligation Care Every Books Way Cities Would Would-Be City Taken Retirees Town Towns Health Care Because Provide America Bankrupt Themselves Companies Keep Kept
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. Clayton M. Christensen
Gift Rest Few Has-Been Ability Given Only Share Gospel Saints Been Denied
Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. So companies are using capital to create more capital, and consequently, the world is awash in capital, but the innovations we need to advance aren't there. Clayton M. Christensen
World Innovations More Advance Investments Long-Term Empowering Tie Years Years And Years Up Which Capital Create Require Companies Using Need Consequently
For online universities, like Liverpool and the University of Phoenix, if prices drop by 60%, they still make money. But for the vast majority of traditional universities, if the prices fall by 10%, they are bankrupt; they have no wriggle room. Clayton M. Christensen
Money Drop Fall Phoenix Online Vast Vast Majority Prices Like Majority Make Still Traditional Bankrupt Room Liverpool Universities University
I'm an optimistic person. Clayton M. Christensen
Optimistic Optimistic Person Person
The iPod is a proprietary integrated product, although that is becoming quite modular. You can download your music from Amazon as easily as you can from iTunes. You also see modularity organized around the Android operating system that is growing much faster than the iPhone. So I worry that modularity will do its work on Apple. Clayton M. Christensen
Work Music You Will Faster Worry Easily System Android See Proprietary Also Operating Operating System Although Around Becoming iPhone iPod Integrated Amazon iTunes Than Quite Much Product Your Organized Download Growing Apple
If you understand cause and effect, it brings about a set of insights that leads you to a very different place. The knowledge will persuade you that the market isn't organized by customer category or by product category. If you understand the job that consumers need to complete, you can articulate all of the experiences in that job. Clayton M. Christensen
Knowledge You Cause Will Job Market Complete Insights About Consumers Leads Category Understand Effect Very Articulate Different Experiences Place Customer Persuade Product Different Place Organized Brings Need Set By-Product
The parents of teenagers would love to have a car that won't go very far or go very fast. They could just cruise around the neighborhood, drive it to school, see their friends, plug it in overnight. Clayton M. Christensen
Love School Car Parents Drive Teenagers Neighborhood Would Plug See Could Cruise Around Overnight Go Friends Very Just Far Fast
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