The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends. -Clayton M. Christensen Happiness
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 Architecture
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. -Clayton M. Christensen Business
The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends. -Clayton M. Christensen Family
In the universities, we teach you what we decide you need to know. And the employers find out when they hire people that students didn't learn what we needed them to learn. Online learning offerings, like the University of Phoenix, have relationships with employers and teach what you need to know. -Clayton M. Christensen Learning
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 Failure
For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core. -Clayton M. Christensen Education
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. -Clayton M. Christensen Wisdom
No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped. -Clayton M. Christensen Business
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. -Clayton M. Christensen Business
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. -Clayton M. Christensen Chance
American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet. -Clayton M. Christensen Finance
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. -Clayton M. Christensen Religion
