Clayton Christensen Quotes

The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.

Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.

Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.

Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.

Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater.

You can't find returns in investments you haven't made.

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

Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.

Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.

Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.

Businesses want to think in terms of categories. Consumers want us to think in terms of their needs.

How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?

An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.

I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.

Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you're good at.

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

The best strategy is a balance between having a deliberate one, and a flexible, or emergent strategy.

Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.

There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence or improvement, or for helping patients stay well.

Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.

If the technology is disruptive, on the other hand, the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will have been toppled and new companies will be on top.

We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it.

If you just look at the data, you are led to believe that things are getting better, rather than worse. That's why the fall is really precipitous, once you hit the ceiling.

Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.

Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.

Every time you take someone figuratively by the hand and introduce him or her to Jesus Christ, you will feel how deeply our Savior loves you and loves the person whose hand is in yours.

In 15 years from now half of US universities may be in bankruptcy ... in the end I'm excited to see that happen. So pray for Harvard Business School if you wouldn't mind.

There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.

I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars but the individual people whose lives I've touched.

If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.

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

Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between our deliberate strategies and the unanticipated alternatives that emerge.

I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.

...it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.

Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation , into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.

Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.

In the study of management, unfortunately, many writers have been so anxious to articulate a theory in the form of, "If you do this, this will result," that they never go through this careful effort.

Because of the disruption phenomenon - technological progress outstripping the ability of customers to utilize it - the general tendency is for the money to migrate toward the subsystems.

There needs to be conviction and action behind rules.

Ultimately, when you come up with a classification scheme that is collectively exhaustive and mutually exclusive, then the theory can become what Kuhn called a paradigm.

Lets take the best of our ideas from Global Drucker Forum, and the best of our language, and then focus and clarify.

I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.

Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.

In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue a truly disruptive strategy.