Clayton Christensen Quotes

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

I would like new people with new ideas to come into it and change it.

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

All that is solid melts into air. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.

Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

This is the age of disruption.

I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.

I just want to change the game.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

I believe that if you don't disrupt yourself, you will be disrupted by someone else.

We do not need more status quo.

Every 10 years the game changes.

In tech communities, we consider disruption the way to lead to innovation.

Industries that are chaotic are ripe for innovation. They are open to anyone who has an idea.

Trying to cause chaos - I think that's the way I create change.

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.

If your idea is truly innovative, you're going to hear from the naysayers. After all, if it really were such a good idea, someone would have already done it, right?

If you look at a company like Uber, a company that so anti-establishment that cab companies are trying to find ways to shut it down, one could compare that to how Public Enemy and NWA went after then-modern society in hip hop.

I frequently find myself praying for punk, for something to come along and upset everybody and ignite a few fires and behave disreputably.

I tell people all the time, the status quo is so untenable to me. Like, literally, I have no patience for it.

With any form of change, it's kind of like you're dislodging something. Once you've done it a little bit, you can open the floodgates.

Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.

Happy is he who causes a scandal

We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.