JD Era Quotes
You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.
Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.
Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.
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.
Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.
Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.
No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.
A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.
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.
Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.
The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.
The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.
The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.
To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.
An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.
Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.
Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?
Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.
You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.
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.
There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.
You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.
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.
There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.
In life, you get what you believe you deserve.
Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.
The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.
Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.
A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.
Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.
Black Market, like a lot of teams, is a family for me. Just guys that I grew up with that I trust and would do anything for.
Most of the stories I have go downhill quickly. In all honesty most of the good stories I have, no one else would think is funny.
I was never actually signed to the label; I was just the annoying rapper that was always around at the studio sessions.
Every artist obviously wants to sell a million records and do the MTV cribs thing, but I'm realistic.
I've just been watching other people's releases and learning from their mistakes. I know I'm bound to make a couple of my own, but I've got a couple ideas that I think are going to help get it out.
What a lot of people don't understand is that the music that they're hearing is usually months, and in some cases, years old. So I'm a lot better than whatever material people have been hearing.
I almost got my degree so I don't need rap. And my family is the furthest thing in the world from musical.
Politics is downstream from culture and not the other way around.
Nature is grand and is made of dream-like elements.All is one, and connected, making an incredible journey, becoming one and united, eternally.
There are turning points in everyone's life when we have to fight, even if we have to do it by ourselves and in public.
Statesmen should remember that they have been elected to persuade and to lead, and not just to accept as fixed the momentary moods and pernicious prejudices of the public.
No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.
Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.
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.
Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.