Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, And Thrive In The Era Of Endless Innovation 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.
No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.
Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.
A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.
Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.
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 best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.
The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.
The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.
An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.
To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.
Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.
Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.
Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?
There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.
Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.
You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.
There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who 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.
Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.
Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.
Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.
You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.
In life, you get what you believe you deserve.
The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.
Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.
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.
Data may disappoint, but it never lies.
You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.
Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.
Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.
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.
All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solutions.
Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.
The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.
No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.
If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.
The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse.
A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.
Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.