Clayton M. Christensen Quotes

Companies, in fact, are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set up separate teams or groups to commercialize disruptive innovations. When disruptive innovations have to fight with other innovations for resources, they tend to lose out.

Clayton M. Christensen

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Author Biography

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

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The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job.

John Frankenheimer

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Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

Robert Palmer

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With Freebass, there were no rules, really. It was all rather chaotic. Obviously, Hooky was playing the high end stuff, which he always does; Mani was doing the bottom end, and I thought I'd go midway and meet everyone in the middle.

Andy Rourke

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We all control our careers. Those choices that you make are so critical.

Angela Ahrendts

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Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them.

John Sergeant Wise

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Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

John Podhoretz

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I read Russian literature a lot.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world.

Michael Mandelbaum

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There's no question I'm going to do everything within the normal political bounds to make sure we don't nominate Donald Trump.

Mitt Romney

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We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.

Donna Edwards

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As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination.

Brian Chesky

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A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

Suzi Quatro

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