289 Quotes by Clayton M. Christensen

Companies make attractive money when they solve the hardest problems.

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea.

One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.

Getting something wrong doesn’t mean you have failed. Instead, you have just learned what does not work. You now know to try something else.

As difficult as it may seem, you've got to be honest with yourself about this whole process. Change can often be difficult, and it will probably seem easier to just stick with what you are already doing. That thinking can be dangerous. You’re only kicking the can down the road, and you risk waking up one day, years later, looking into the mirror, asking yourself: "What am I doing with my life?

You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented.

There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence or improvement, or for helping patients stay well.

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.

That’s a hallmark of good theory: it dispenses its advice in “if-then” statements.