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" My wife comes most of the times I teach and stands on the front row to help me. She's been wonderfully supportive. "

Clayton M. Christensen

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" The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as identifying disruptive developments in their market. "

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" Innovation almost always is not successful the first time out. You try something, and it doesn't work, and it takes confidence to say we haven't failed yet... Ultimately, you become commercially successful. "

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

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" India's prosperity is sectioned by geography, such as in Bangalore, where the information technology industry is prominent. Because they have a conduit out of India, competing in the world by the Internet, it's not regulated in corrupt ways, and it is very prosperous. "

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

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" For online universities, like Liverpool and the University of Phoenix, if prices drop by 60%, they still make money. But for the vast majority of traditional universities, if the prices fall by 10%, they are bankrupt; they have no wriggle room. "

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

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" Holiday Inn comes in at the bottom of the market, but they can't go upmarket except if they emulate the Four Seasons. So they can go up, but they have to emulate the people they're trying to compete against. They can't disrupt them, because there isn't anything about their model that is extendable upmarket. "

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" '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. "

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" The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations. "

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" 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. "

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" Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job. Even if you eliminate what makes you dissatisfied, that doesn't make you motivated. It doesn't make your work rewarding. You just are less bothered by things. "

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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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" Funding that is focused on the ability to diagnose diseases precisely will just have inestimable value because that's the gate through which precision medicine has to go. Unless you can diagnose the disease precisely, care has to remain in the hands of expensive institutions and expensive caregivers. "

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" There are a lot of companies - not just Sony and Kodak - that have spent a lot of money trying to make the quality of the digital images comparable with film. But when you're sending these things over the Internet, they don't have to be high quality. "

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" While I wouldn't say that most entrepreneurs find it easy to get funding, there are certainly more people out there funding technology and healthcare companies than in other areas. "

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" One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed to innovation that they will give the innovators a lot of money to spend. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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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" Venture capital is always wanting to go up market. "

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" I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth. "

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" I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me. "

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" 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. "

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" For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core. "

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" The concept of disruption is about competitive response; it is not a theory of growth. It's adjacent to growth. But it's not about growth. "

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" We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries to fund research. "

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" I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues. "

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" Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education. "

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