Clayton Christensen Quotes
As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic.
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I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.
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When you are only one vendor, there is a very low rate of innovation. You think the old architecture is just fine, and it can just happily exist for many years.
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A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.
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As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character.
