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1. "But was the Newton a failure? The timing of Newton's entry into the handheld market was akin to the timing of the Apple II into the desktop market. It was a market-creating, disruptive product targeted at an undefinable set of users whose needs were unknown to either themselves or Apple. On that basis, Newton's sales should have been a pleasant surprise to Apple's executives: It outsold the Apple II in its first two years by a factor of more than three to one. But while selling 43,000 units was viewed as an IPO-qualifying triumph in the smaller Apple of 1979, selling 140,000 Newtons was viewed as a failure in the giant Apple of 1994." ~ Clayton M. Christensen
2. "One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year." ~ Clayton M. Christensen
3. "you perfect results. What I can promise you is that you won't get it right if you don't commit to keep trying." ~ Clayton M. Christensen
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5. "But if anyone believes that he is working harder but is being paid less than another person, it would be like transplanting cancer into this company." ~ Clayton M. Christensen
6. "Focus is scary—until you realize that it only means turning your back on markets you could never have anyway. Sharp focus on jobs that customers are trying to get done holds the promise of greatly improving the odds of success in new-product development." ~ Clayton M. Christensen
7. "resisting the temptation whose logic was "In this extenuating circumstance, just this once, it's OK" has proven to be one of the most important decisions of my life. Why? My life has been one unending stream of extenuating circumstances. Had I crossed the line that one time, I would have done it over and over in the years that followed.The lesson I learned from this is that it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time. If you give in to "just this once," based on a marginal cost analysis, as some of my former classmates have done, you'll regret where you end up. You've got to define for yourself what you stand for and draw the line in a safe place." ~ Clayton M. Christensen
8. "I don't view it as mystic. I believe that God is our father. He created us. He is powerful because he knows everything. Therefore everything I learn that is true makes me more like my father in heaven. When science seems to contradict religion, then one, the other, or both are wrong, or incomplete. Truth is not incompatible with itself. When I benefit from science it's actually not correct for me to say it resulted from science and not from God. They work in concert." ~ Clayton M. Christensen
9. "If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late." ~ Clayton M. Christensen
10. "It turns out that for most people who have chronic diseases with deferred consequences, "improve my financial health" is a much more pervasively experienced job than "maintain my physical health." ~ Clayton M. Christensen
11. "Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives." ~ Clayton M. Christensen
12. "Keeping high-volume procedures within general hospitals allows hospitals to subsidize the unique, low-volume specialized capabilities that are so central to the value proposition of their solution shops- being able to diagnose and embark on a therapy for anything that might be wrong." ~ Clayton M. Christensen
13. "Much of the ability to create and maintain valuable brands, as a consequence, has migrated away from the product and to the channel because, for the present, it is the channel that addresses the piece of added value that is not yet good enough." ~ Clayton M. Christensen
14. "disruptive technology should be framed as a marketing challenge, not a technological one." ~ Clayton M. Christensen
15. "When commercializing disruptive technologies, they found or developed new markets that valued the attributes of the disruptive products, rather than search for a technological breakthrough so that the disruptive product could compete as a sustaining technology in mainstream markets." ~ Clayton M. Christensen
16. "Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time." ~ Clayton M. Christensen
17. "You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented." ~ Clayton M. Christensen
18. "Identifying disruptive footholds means connecting with specific jobs that people—your future customers—are trying to get done in their lives." ~ Clayton M. Christensen
19. "this is a serious development for our medical training establishment is that a host of technological enablers will fuel the disruption of specialists by primary care physicians in the future." ~ Clayton M. Christensen
20. "the breakthrough researcher first discovers the fundamental causal mechanism behind the phenomena of success. This allows those who are looking for "an answer" to get beyond the wings-and-feathers mind-set of copying the attributes of successful companies." ~ Clayton M. Christensen
21. "Watching how customers actually use a product provides much more reliable information than can be gleaned from a verbal interview or a focus group." ~ Clayton M. Christensen
22. "Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of "just this once." ~ Clayton M. Christensen

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