Clayton M. Christensen Quotes

We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counterintuitive. If companies don't have that common language, it is hard for them to come to consensus on a counterintuitive course of action.

Clayton M. Christensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.

John Buchanan Robinson

KingPeopleAccountingArmyGuilty

If you're positioned to start your own organization, that's great - but rare.

Andrew Yang

GreatOrganizationStartYouRare

Leadership is by far the most important quality when it comes to making a show that's going to last and of superb quality, something classy and fun.

Andre Braugher

LeadershipQualityFunClassyGoing

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

John Lennon

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Without meaning to sound crass, I've never had any psychological... help. It's because I feel my work is so revealing about who I am and what I am trying to understand about myself. It's a therapeutic process.

Robert Lepage

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

John Stuart Mill

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When they invented the Steadicam, every movie had to have a fight in a stairwell. Whenever there's a new thing, it's abused until artists realize what a Steadicam as a tool can be. And now I defy people to be able to see Steadicam shots, because we know how to do them and make them invisible.

Robert Zemeckis

FightPeopleNewKnowNowSee

You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.

Rudy Giuliani

ChangePeopleYouHonestSomething

I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's what you did in those days. I've never been a pushy, ambitious type of person anyway.

Michael Learned

YouBackCareerPersonYoungNever

I was a basketball player. And my mother even wanted me to quit because I hurt my leg. But I didn't know anything about football - from Pee-Wee on up, my friends would play, and I would never go with them.

Jason Pierre-Paul

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What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.

Chaz Bono

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When I tell people I don't own a mobile phone and wouldn't know how to text, they react as though I have just confessed that I can't read.

Craig Brown

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