Disruption Quotes

To describe yourself as an entrepreneur or a disrupter is as meaningless as describing yourself as an athlete or a thinker. Really? What sports do you play? What do you think about?

We are sometimes astounded by the behavior of emotional outlaws, as they act in line with their own standards, but proceed like bulls-in-a-china-shop, create one heck of a mess in their living environment and bring about shocking disturbing dissensions, ever since their inner construction clashes with our emotional architecture. (“Disruption”)

Erik Pevernagie

Great leaders catch and correct problems while they’re still small and able to be managed without a lot of hassle. If ignored too long, small problems will morph into much bigger issues that will require more time and effort and at a high cost, causing a great deal of disruption and stress.

Root cause of inequality is the mass scale digital disruption advantage as means of wealth creation is concentrated.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it.

The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind.

Mad is a label we attach to people we find disruptive and confusing.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller

Seems like the world is spinning smooth without a bump or squeak except when love comes in. Then the whole machine just quits like a loud load of wash on imbalance--the buzzer singing to high heave, the danger light flashing.

Sandra Cisneros

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

Jay Samit

I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-light left on. Any burglar could look through my curtains and conclude I am empty. But he would be mistaken. Under that one light unstirred by movement or shadows there is a man at work, and as long as I am at work I am not a candidate for Menlo Park, or that terminal facility they cynically call a convalescent hospital, or a pine box. My habits and the unchanging season sustain me. Evil is what questions and disrupts.

Wallace Stegner

Innovation and disruption are ideas that originated in the arena of business but which have since been applied to arenas whose values and goals are remote from the values and goals of business. People aren’t disk drives. Public schools, colleges and universities, churches, museums, and many hospitals, all of which have been subjected to disruptive innovation, have revenues and expenses and infrastructures, but they aren’t industries in the same way that manufacturers of hard-disk drives or truck engines or drygoods are industries. Journalism isn’t an industry in that sense, either.Doctors have obligations to their patients, teachers to their students, pastors to their congregations, curators to the public, and journalists to their readers--obligations that lie outside the realm of earnings, and are fundamentally different from the obligations that a business executive has to employees, partners, and investors. Historically, institutions like museums, hospitals, schools, and universities have been supported by patronage, donations made by individuals or funding from church or state. The press has generally supported itself by charging subscribers and selling advertising. (Underwriting by corporations and foundations is a funding source of more recent vintage.) Charging for admission, membership, subscriptions and, for some, earning profits are similarities these institutions have with businesses. Still, that doesn’t make them industries, which turn things into commodities and sell them for gain.

Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea.

Clayton M. Christensen

Winter arrived with December, and the world continued to suffer the loss of the Internet and most forms of communication. Supply chains were disrupted. The only mass form of personal communication was the letter, and postal workers were having their worst year ever, as they were actually meeded. Food was becoming scarcer and more expensive, as was fuel for vehicles and heating. Major cities experienced riots on a regular basis, spurred on by religious fervor and want. Civilization was on the brink of collapse.

Unexpected clashes between past and present may arouse a surge of bewilderment, but ‘time’ can be a redeemer and heal mental wreckage. Time might prove to be a dependable ally and a reliable coach to find a new inspiring sequel for the future. (“Disruption”)

Erik Pevernagie

Companies preach creativity, hire for conformity and call consultants when they fail who tell them to be more creative.

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

Jay Samit

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

Jay Samit

All Disruption starts with introspection.

Jay Samit

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

Jay Samit

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

Jay Samit

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

Jay Samit

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

Jay Samit

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

Jay Samit

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solutions.

Jay Samit

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.

Jay Samit

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

Jay Samit

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

Jay Samit

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

Jay Samit

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

Jay Samit

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

Jay Samit

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Jay Samit

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

Jay Samit

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

Jay Samit

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

Jay Samit

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.

Jay Samit

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Jay Samit

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

Jay Samit

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

Jay Samit

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Jay Samit

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

Jay Samit

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Jay Samit

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

Jay Samit

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.

Jay Samit

You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.

Jay Samit

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse.

Jay Samit

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Jay Samit

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

Jay Samit

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Jay Samit

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

Jay Samit

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

Jay Samit

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

Jay Samit

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

Jay Samit

Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.

Jay Samit

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

Jay Samit

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Jay Samit

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be killed, go with it.

Jay Samit

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

Jay Samit

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.

Jay Samit

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

Jay Samit

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