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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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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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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When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.
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It's ironic that we've built the beauty world around 20-year-olds, when they have no f - kin' concept about wisdom, what life is about, having a few relationships below their belt and feeling hardships, to grow into their skin and feel confident within themselves and to feel the value of who they are, not because of a man or because of something like that. And I think that's such a beautiful thing.
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If you make a wrong move with explosives, it could be deadly. If you're there when they blow up the beach, you get blown up, too. So you need to get your job done correctly... then pull the fuse with enough lag time for you to clear the area completely and get picked up by the small boats.
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When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.
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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.
