213 Quotes by Clayton Christensen

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

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

Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism, even as eager entrepreneurs can't get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained, 'Water, water everywhere - nor any drop to drink.'

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

Businesses that distribute information and news are in the business of training and teaching people.

Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.

But every once in a while we see a different kind of technology come into an industry, and we call this a 'disruptive technology,'

It is when the product is not good enough that proprietary integration gives you a competitive edge. You cannot outsource and be competitively successful in this situation. But at the other end, where standard components assembled in standard ways can yield acceptable performance, you must outsource.

Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It's when growth stops because you're being disrupted that managing becomes really, really hard, and as a result, most disrupted companies simply disappear.