Clayton M. Christensen Quotes

During the early stages of an industry, when the functionality and reliability of a product isn't yet adequate to meet customer's needs, a proprietary solution is almost always the right solution - because it allows you to knit all the pieces together in an optimized way.

Clayton M. Christensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 6, 1952

Topics

TogetherCustomerSolutionYouEarly

Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

Jim Rogers

ManagementYearInvestingActive

I can't tell you how many bizarre shows at UCB I was a part of.

Jessica St. Clair

YouTellHowManyPartBizarre

You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?

Jeremy Grantham

AloneYouPersonHealthyRunPickle

At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I was too ambitious musically to settle for it. And I wanted to gamble with whatever talent I might have had.

Andre Previn

TalentYearYouSettleMusically

He who does not want does not act.

Robert Green Ingersoll

WantActWhoHeDoes

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high character.

Tommy Franks

CharacterManThinkLookWillHigh

I shudder at the image they would piece together.

Roger Vadim

TogetherImageWouldPieceShudder

I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.

Liz Phair

PeopleIndependenceYouKnowSound

Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left.

Jordan Peterson

LeftRadicalFanObviously

Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon intimidated us all because she walked in and was going to be the dance captain. She was a great star, but she loved that kind of work as his assistant.

Donna McKechnie

WorkGreatDanceLovedKindShe

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

Dorothy Hamill

WorkTimeThinkBetterIceYou

As storytellers, we tend to want to force-feed everything and have everybody understand everything right away, and we freak out if they don't.

Brian J. Smith

WantUnderstandRightEverythingOut

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