Quotes about disruption

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption.

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”)

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.

Disruptors don't have to discover something new they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.

Security doesn't rob ambition the illusion of security robs ambition.

Sometimes what is said to be a gift may appear more of a curse only because the greatest gifts of all are the gifts that have enough disruptive force to break us out of everything that’s breaking us. And God loves us far too much not to give us exactly those kinds of gifts.

The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up. But there are no adults. We own this mess.

A sound idea is a form of energy. It can not be destroyed. It evolves from inspiration, to a function of preparation, then determination - till the ideator's dream becomes actualized in real lifeAt the very least, success is a second iteration of the original, unscripted IdeaSo your idea refinement process needs to be test-drivenTestDetermine on time if investment in terms of effort and time is worth itWork SmartFail early, fail often,Success lies on the paths yet to be treaded,Open your mind,Th

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

Rhetorical question: Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo?I didn't.

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

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

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”)

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

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 bri

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

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

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

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

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.

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

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

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

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

All Disruption starts with introspection.

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

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