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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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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When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
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If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm always thinking about maths, even when I'm doing other things. A lot of the time you're going up blind alleys and it's very frustrating, but then you have a sudden rush of ideas. You can live off that for quite some time.
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I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.
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I think people don't often realize how much goes into being a male dancer. It's athletic and it's hard. It's not just men wearing tights, or wanting to be around women.
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My recommendation is a compelling urgency for decentralisation. There is a necessity to decentralise the Police. We are under policed.
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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.
