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" The only way all people can have the opportunity to choose or reject the gospel of Jesus Christ is for us, without judgment, to invite them to follow the Savior. "

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" 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. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Speak

Sometimes

Lost

" 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

New

Writing

Colleagues

" This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Truth

Happiness

" When you're thinking about your next product or current product and wondering how to make it different so you don't have competition, understand the job the customer needs to get done. "

Clayton M. Christensen

You

Done

Competition

" 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. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Wave

Character

Architecture

" I don't have my finger on the pulse of corruption in China, but I think most people on the ground would say that as China was emerging from communism, it was a very regulated society, and therefore, it was very corrupt. But as they have deregulated the economy, there just aren't as many opportunities for people to be corrupt. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Society

Opportunities

People

" If you're successful and growing, you can manage any way you want to. Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Growing

Growth

Management

" 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

Technology

Easy

Healthcare

" 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

Job

Trying

Accomplish

" Managers are already voracious consumers of theory. Every time they make a decision or take action, it's based on some theory that leads them to believe that action will lead to the right result. The problem is, most managers aren't aware of the theories they're using, and they often use the wrong theories for the situation. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Problem

Believe

Action

" Having a loving relationship with our spouse or with our children is what leads to the long-term happiness we all seek. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Happiness

Seek

Relationship

" 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. "

Clayton M. Christensen

World

Information

Internet

" The iPod is a proprietary integrated product, although that is becoming quite modular. You can download your music from Amazon as easily as you can from iTunes. You also see modularity organized around the Android operating system that is growing much faster than the iPhone. So I worry that modularity will do its work on Apple. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Growing

Worry

Apple

" I don't feel that this concept of disruptive technology is the solution for everybody. But I think it's very important for innovators to understand what we've learned about established companies' motivation to target obvious profitable markets - and about their inability to find emerging ones. The evidence is just overwhelming. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Motivation

Important

Think

" What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Happy

Be Happy

" People have an idol they want to be like and try to follow what the idols did. But when you do, you find out you're not very successful and you're not very happy. You try to copy these models, and it doesn't yield successful results. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Successful

Results

People

" In our personal lives, we have a lot of businesses going on. I have a profession, I'm a father, a spouse, a good member of my community. How much of my time and energy can I allocate to each of those things? What I allocate becomes the strategy I have for my family, and everything else. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Family

Community

Father

" The basic idea that marketing is wrong at its core is one of the main reasons why innovation seems blocked and unpredictable. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Wrong

Core

Innovation

" 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. "

Clayton M. Christensen

People

Always

Ideas

" 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

Ability

Rest

" In the Mormon Church, we believe we can be married for all eternity, not till death do you part. As Mom was getting older, she was excited, truly excited, that within a few years she'd be with Dad again. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Getting Older

Death

Mom

" 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. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Healthcare

First

American

" The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can compete on a quality basis with an established product. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Technology

Quality

Mistake

" There are three types of innovations that affect jobs and capital: empowering innovations, sustaining innovations and efficiency innovations. "

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Affect

Three

Efficiency

" 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. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Children

Day

Home

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

Clayton M. Christensen

People

Help

Management

" '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. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Want

People

Powerful

" 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. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Competitive

Growth

Theory

" There just isn't anything more invigorating than to read an article or hear about an entrepreneur using the term 'disruptive technology' that makes no reference to me as the source. When it's clear they really got the idea and they use it as if it were in everyday parlance, that's the ultimate triumph. "

Clayton M. Christensen

Technology

Triumph

" 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.' "

Clayton M. Christensen

People

Grow

Successful