Clayton Christensen Quotes

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.

A lot of people have a great business idea; they just need a little push to make it a reality.

I believe in this industry as a business, and I want to continue to grow my own business.

A lot of companies are able to do without design. A few companies are able to do without creativity. A very few. Creativity is crucial to your business.

Business is about more than just money. It's about being creative and innovative.

One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better.

For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management.

It's not government that makes business successful. It's not government investments that makes businesses grow and hire people.

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up

There is a fantasy in Redmond that Microsoft products are innovative, but this is based entirely on a peculiar confusion of the words "innovative" and "successful." Microsoft products are successful - they make a lot of money - but that doesn't make them innovative, or even particularly good.

Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop.

Monopoly is the condition of every successful business.

The more successful enterprises are the more they try to replicate, duplicate, codify what makes us great. And suddenly they're inward thinking. They're thinking how can we continue to do what we've done in the past without understanding that what made them successful is to take risks, to change and to adapt and to be responsive. And so in a sense success breeds its own failure. And I think it's true of a lot of successful businesses.

Most companies think of disruption as a threat. But disruptive innovations have tremendous growth potential. If incumbent companies can learn how to harness the forces of disruption, they too can improve their ability to create new-growth businesses.

We talk to a team they've gotten new things done, that's the best predictor we have that a company will be successful.

Luck never built a business. Prosperity and growth come only to the business that systematically finds and exploits its potential.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.

To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations.

Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.

No matter how successful you've been in the past the question is what's your next miracle.

Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.

In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.