Clayton Christensen Quotes

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

I want something completely new and different to happen, and lots of it. Stuff that makes us change the way we think about a market or the world. Something that inspires a new generation of crazy startups doing crazy things.

Disrupt, and you will be saved.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

The most powerful thing in the world is an idea.

Science is not about status quo. It's about revolution.

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.

This is the age of disruption.

It's easy to think that craft can't change but important to remember that all craft process was at some point new, at some point challenged convention - not to be contrary, but enabled by some breakthrough, some newly discovered principle, or sometimes some wonderful accident.

Everything established should go out the window. But I don't know how to do it. If someone knew how, it would have happened by now.

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.

Innovation doesn't care about anyone.

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.

Innovations are changes which cannot be decomposed into infinitessimal steps.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law?