Clayton Christensen Quotes

Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering. Efficiency innovators become the low cost providers within an existing framework.

Clayton Christensen

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• If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Long
  • Song

• Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.

  

  Camila Alves
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Feeling
  • Beauty
  • Bird

• Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Long
  • Country
  • Want

• I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Years
  • Problems
  • Over

• When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Digital India is about empowering the citizen - it's mobile, it's cloud, it's storage - we are in all those areas.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Empowering
  • Citizen
  • Digital

• I think the pageant system is about empowering women. I think that aspect of it is great, but when you take parents who are forcing their children to do anything, I don't think it's healthy.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Great
  • Women
  • Children

• I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I'm living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Women
  • Confidence
  • Yourself

• To make your own family is just the most empowering thing ever. It's the greatest thing you can ever pull off.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Family
  • You
  • Greatest

• The most important truth which has ever been uttered, and the greatest discovery ever made in the moral world.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • World
  • Important
  • Truth

• Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware of, but that's just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history - empowering women to be able to stand up for themselves.'

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. So companies are using capital to create more capital, and consequently, the world is awash in capital, but the innovations we need to advance aren't there.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• I didn't set out to write some female-empowering movie; I just wanted to write a funny college comedy.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Movie
  • Funny
  • College

• Moana is definitely a Disney heroine. She's wonderful, empowered, empowering.

  

  Auli'i Cravalho
  • She
  • Disney
  • Empowering

• Some of our songs are empowering, but I feel like more so than our music, it's who we are. We're four women who are completely different ethnicities, completely different body types, completely different walks of life and opinions.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• We all have our things that we go through, and I wanted to be an artist that people could listen to and feel like they're not alone. I want to be empowering.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • People
  • Alone
  • Empowering

• I challenge the leaders of public education to stop issuing mandates from the state office and to focus on empowering schools and delivering resources to the school level.

  

  David Ige
  • School
  • Education
  • Stop

• I believed deeply that digital was an empowering opportunity for Playboy, not a threat.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Opportunity
  • Empowering

• Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • American
  • Chaos

• My experience with 'Last Resort' is very different from most of the cast. While they are next to a mountain, I'm always within the four walls of my home.

  

  Jessy Schram
  • Different
  • Home
  • Experience

• Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that emerges only once in the whole history of life on earth takes a great deal of explaining.

  

  Elaine Morgan
  • History
  • Behavior
  • Emerges

• Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering. Efficiency innovators become the low cost providers within an existing framework.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Empowering