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All Quotes by author - Clayton M. Christensen

" A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry. "

" A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where it doesn't. And in so doing, it is broadly applicable. "

" Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before. "

" A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established. "

" American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet. "

" An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better. "

" As a general rule, if you have a product that doesn't get the job done that a customer is needing to get done, then often you have to offer it for zero. Because if you ask for money for it - because if it doesn't do the job well, they won't pay for it. "

" As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character. "

" As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. "

" A sustaining innovation makes better products that you can sell for better profits to your best customers. "

" Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents. "

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

" By definition, big data cannot yield complicated descriptions of causality. Especially in healthcare. Almost all of our diseases occur in the intersections of systems in the body. "

" By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption. "

" Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them. "

" Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults. "

" Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better. "

" 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. "

" Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well. "

" Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else. "

" 'Disruption' is, at its core, a really powerful idea. Everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now. It's the same way people hijacked the word 'paradigm' to justify lame things they're trying to sell to mankind. "

" Disruption is continuously afoot in every industry, but especially in autos. It is how Toyota, Nissan and Honda bloodied Detroit: They did not start their attack with Lexus, Infiniti and Acura, but with low-end subcompact models branded Corona, Datsun and CVCC. "

" Do not be deceived by impostors. "

" 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. "

" Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15. "

" Efficiency innovations are a natural part of the economic cycle, but these are the innovations that streamline process and actually reduce the number of available jobs. "

" Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering. Efficiency innovators become the low cost providers within an existing framework. "

" Efficiency innovations provide return on investment in 12-18 months. Empowering innovations take 5-10 years to yield a return. We have ample capital - oceans of capital - that is being reinvested into efficiency innovation. "

" Eighty percent of the cases used in the typical MBA program are about successful companies. Students graduate with this notion that 'If I do everything that the people in those cases did, then my organization will grow and be successful, too.' "

" Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. So companies are using capital to create more capital, and consequently, the world is awash in capital, but the innovations we need to advance aren't there. "

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