Clayton Christensen Quotes
If you develop a product that gets what the customer is trying to get done, you don't have to advertise; people will just pull it into their lives.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
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In 2008, I was one of the young feminist whippersnappers who voted for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries - or as many of my older counterparts called me at the time, a traitor.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that we are living on a planet that is going at enormous speed through the universe.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
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If you develop a product that gets what the customer is trying to get done, you don't have to advertise; people will just pull it into their lives.
