Clayton Christensen Quotes

Everything begins with an idea.

We love serious technology innovations, and there is a strong bias towards large technology innovations that are sort of disruptive to the current market.

I'm not an innovator.

I like to come up with new ideas and see them grow.

It's worth noting that everything - from the Internet to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media - were pioneered by startups, not existing companies.

In innovation, you're trying to create something from nothing.

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

To me, ideas are like annoying salespeople that only go away once I've built them.

Fundamentally there is a narrative around where innovation can come out from.

Betting against entrepreneurs who are changing the world has never been a profitable endeavor.

I had elements that were much more than what Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates had. If I work according to their methods, what will I create? All of this was in my head when I was young.

Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.

Everything is always coming from something else. Even if you create something, it has to be inspired by something else. If you think of Apple and Steve Jobs, he had to be inspired by something that launched the ideas in his head.

Each major wave of technology innovation has given rise to one or more super-unicorns - companies that could change your life to work at or invest in if you're not lucky/genius enough to be a co-founder.

I think everything starts with an idea. No matter how crazy it is, you should always try to bring it to life.

Innovation in an existing company is not just the sum of great technology, key acquisitions, or smart people. Corporate innovation needs a culture that matches and supports it.

Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

I don't think the disruptor and the business model of a disruptor necessarily is an indication of the topography of the future. If it did, you would say then that everyone will make high-end electric cars, when the answer is clearly no.

I'm going to keep innovating.

To gain the competitive edge, companies must master the ability to innovate.

EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

Startups are transforming our society. Over the past 100 years, we've gone from an industrial era, where a hierarchical structure dominated business and society, to a post information era where the network is rapidly disrupting the hierarchy and transforming the way we work and live.

Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. Capture Every Fleeting Idea And Drive For Change.

The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.