Clayton Christensen Quotes
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.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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I can't tell you how good it is to go from 'Homeland' to be lucky enough to find 'The Blacklist' at the right time. It literally came at the very end of pilot season when I thought there was nothing left.
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The stat is the score. And when you don't win that score, nothing good happens.
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None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.
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In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.
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I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.
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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.
