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. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It’s when growth stops because you’re being disrupted that managing becomes really, really hard, and as a result, most disrupted companies simply disappear. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
Businesses that distribute information and news are in the business of training and teaching people. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
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. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
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. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
People don’t actually want to think about their own health and don’t take action until they are sick. Yet employers are very motivated to get their employees healthy, since they bear most of the burden of their health care costs. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
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. Clayton M. Christensen Read Quote
