Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes dimension easy growth
Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from. Clayton M. Christensen catercompanycustomer Change image and share on social
I helped start a ceramics company called CPS Technologies. We took it public in 1987 at $12 a share. Three months later, there was this horrible cliff: Black Monday. Fidelity had bought 15 percent of our stock, and their algorithm caused them to dump it all onto the market that day. We dropped from $12 to $2. Clayton M. Christensen algorithmblackbuy share on social
American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet. Clayton M. Christensen americanbalancecapitalist Change image and share on social
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. Epicurus acquireeasyfree Change image and share on social
When a place comes across vividly in a novel, it's often compared to a character. I can remember writing teachers who encouraged me to treat setting as if it were a character, to give it three dimensions, to make it come alive, jump off the page. Kaui Hart Hemmings alivecharactercompare share on social
I want to tell mayors, county chiefs and heads of big companies: don't just chase GDP growth; don't chase the biggest profits at the expense of our children and grandchildren and at the cost of sacrificing our ecological environment. Chen Guangbiao bigchasechief share on social