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" The ability to share the gospel isn't a 'gift' that has been given to only a few Latter-day Saints and denied to the rest. "

Clayton M. Christensen

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" Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways. "

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" The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business. "

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

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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. "

Clayton M. Christensen

" The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late. "

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" We all have jobs in our lives that we must get done. We reach out and bring products into our lives to get these jobs done. Marketing is all about asking, 'What job is the customer trying to accomplish?' "

Clayton M. Christensen

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

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" There are companies trying to build business within Saudi Arabia, and what they find is that if they try to bring on locals and teach them how to become senior executives, they just don't show up to work. They are not predictable as to when they'll come in and how much of their hearts are into that opportunity. "

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" I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life. "

Clayton M. Christensen

" In organizations, once you articulate how success will be measured, everybody tries to game the system so that they are measured in the best possible way. "

Clayton M. Christensen

" Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together. "

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" The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure. "

Clayton M. Christensen

" I helped start a ceramics company called CPS Technologies. We took it public in 1987 at $12 a share. Three months later, there was this horrible cliff: Black Monday. Fidelity had bought 15 percent of our stock, and their algorithm caused them to dump it all onto the market that day. We dropped from $12 to $2. "

Clayton M. Christensen

" The process of writing 'The Innovator's Dilemma' entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time. "

Clayton M. Christensen

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

Clayton M. Christensen

" Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management, that's deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession. "

Clayton M. Christensen

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

Clayton M. Christensen

" 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. "

Clayton M. Christensen

" I wrote my first piece about the disruption of the Harvard Business School in 1999. Because you could see this coming. I haven't yet done the one about the disruption of the Stanford Business School. "

Clayton M. Christensen

" People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can't get funding because of this mismatch. I think that there is an opportunity there. "

Clayton M. Christensen

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

Clayton M. Christensen

" From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students. I decided that, rather than waste the last day of class summarizing the semester, I'd spend my time talking about what I'd learned in life that was useful. "

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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. "

Clayton M. Christensen

" Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession. "

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

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" Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research. "

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" In an environment where you've got to push innovations out the door fast and keep the cost of innovation low, the probability that you'll be successful is actually much higher. "

Clayton M. Christensen

" I had a horrible heart attack and still have symptoms of that sometimes. Then cancer, which is in remission. But the stroke is the hardest thing because I just lost my ability to speak and to write. "

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" We need to have an understanding of what causes what to happen in the world, and why. "

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