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I got Type 1 diabetes at 30. It hit me in 1982 when I was a White House Fellow in Washington. I had viral pneumonia. I lost 35 pounds in six weeks. And I couldn't see anything. Everything was blurry. I was always thirsty.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Always Anything Diabetes Everything Fellow Got Had Hit House Lost Me Pounds See Six Thirsty Type Viral Washington Weeks White White House Pneumonia

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I'm an optimistic person.

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Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them.

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Topics: Children Learn Necessarily Parents Ready Teach Them

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I talk to our kids now that they are grown up, and I ask them about the experiences that had growing up that really had a powerful influence on the way they view the purpose of life. The experiences that really shaped their values - my wife and I have no memory of those experiences!

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: About Ask Experiences Growing Growing Up Grown Had Influence Kids Life Memory Now Our Powerful Purpose Really Shaped Talk Them Those Up Values View Way Wife

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The iPod is a proprietary integrated product, although that is becoming quite modular. You can download your music from Amazon as easily as you can from iTunes. You also see modularity organized around the Android operating system that is growing much faster than the iPhone. So I worry that modularity will do its work on Apple.

~Clayton Christensen

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The basic idea that marketing is wrong at its core is one of the main reasons why innovation seems blocked and unpredictable.

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Topics: Basic Blocked Core Idea Innovation Main Marketing Reasons Seems Unpredictable Why Wrong

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If you understand cause and effect, it brings about a set of insights that leads you to a very different place. The knowledge will persuade you that the market isn't organized by customer category or by product category. If you understand the job that consumers need to complete, you can articulate all of the experiences in that job.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: About Articulate Brings Category Cause Complete Consumers Customer Different Different Place Effect Experiences Insights Job Knowledge Leads Market Need Organized Persuade Place Product Set Understand Very Will You

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The parents of teenagers would love to have a car that won't go very far or go very fast. They could just cruise around the neighborhood, drive it to school, see their friends, plug it in overnight.

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Venture capital is always wanting to go up market.

~Clayton Christensen

Topics: Always Capital Go Market Up Venture Venture Capital Wanting

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People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can't get funding because of this mismatch. I think that there is an opportunity there.

~Clayton Christensen

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 6th, 1952

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