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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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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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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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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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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Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away.
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Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.
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Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.
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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste.
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The Mac defined 'personal technology', and the iPhone defines 'intimate technology' as a convergence of communications, content and location.
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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.
