Clayton Christensen Quotes

Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from.

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• I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Understand

• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Never

• I've been in more laps than a napkin.

  

  Mae West
  • More
  • Been
  • Napkin

• The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Children
  • Family
  • Death

• Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Long
  • Women
  • Way

• What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Responsibility
  • Greed

• Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.

  

  Zendaya
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Remember

• I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Change
  • Opportunities

• I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Music
  • Believe

• Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • People
  • High
  • Die

• I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Work
  • Long
  • Race

• In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Country
  • Ambassador

• When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • World
  • Women
  • War

• No person is just one particular emotion.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Person
  • Emotion
  • Just

• There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Want
  • Flying
  • Talk

• Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Matter
  • Truth Is

• I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Friends
  • Child
  • Fight

• When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• I don't understand how some of these young actresses are wearing such provocative, editorial items, when they haven't even established a career yet. It's hard to see past that. I'm not so sure that's smart in the long run.

  

  Allison Williams
  • Long
  • Career
  • Past

• I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Sexuality
  • MAle
  • Gestures

• When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

  

  Jerome Isaac Friedman
  • Music
  • Art
  • Financial

• Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • High
  • Smart
  • Ignore