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

Clayton M. Christensen

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" There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families. "

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" Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough. "

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" I haven't met too many people that don't intend to have a fulfilling life. High-achievers, however, end up allocating their resources in a way that seriously undermines their intended strategy. "

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" 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. "

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

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" If you develop a product that gets what the customer is trying to get done, you don't have to advertise; people will just pull it into their lives. "

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" Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances. "

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" 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. "

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" When an entrant competitor attacks the low end of any market, the rational reaction of the incumbent firms is to abandon rather than defend it - because the low end is the least profitable of their possible investments. "

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" The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives. "

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" Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served. "

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" People under-invest in family because it doesn't pay off until the long term. "

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" What's unique about the Mormon Church is that it encourages inquiry. I really do think my research and religion are all on the same page. I never could have come up with the notion of disruptive innovations, which went against a lot of conventional wisdom, if I hadn't been raised to always be asking questions. "

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" The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends. "

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