Quotes from Clayton M. Christensen
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.
- Clayton M. Christensen
Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering. Efficiency innovators become the low cost providers within an existing framework.
- Clayton M. Christensen
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
There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.
- Clayton M. Christensen
You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.
- Clayton M. Christensen
In the Mormon Church, we believe we can be married for all eternity, not till death do you part. As Mom was getting older, she was excited, truly excited, that within a few years she'd be with Dad again.
- Clayton M. Christensen
The only way all people can have the opportunity to choose or reject the gospel of Jesus Christ is for us, without judgment, to invite them to follow the Savior.
- Clayton M. Christensen
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
When a company identifies how to integrate the processes needed to give the consumer a sense of job completion, it can blow away the competition. A product is easy to copy, but experiences are very hard to replicate.
- Clayton M. Christensen
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
If you make that decision, that you'll always follow that rule, then your commitment to do it sinks into your heart, and when you realize the benefits of having integrity time after time, it really changes your heart, not just your head.
- Clayton M. Christensen
There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.
- Clayton M. Christensen