Disruptive Innovation Quotes

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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.

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

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

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

Entrepreneur, take a bite out of Apple's innovation so in turn you can bear fruits of creativity.

Telephone did not come into existence from the persistent improvement of the postcard.

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

Creativity is the new currency, so, are you credited with new thoughts or overdrawn in old thinking?

Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

A $10, 000 investment in Dell at its 1988 initial public offering would have yielded a fortune of ~$6 million at the stock’s peak.

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.