Disruptive Quotes

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I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.

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

It's really important to be disruptive and do things that actually are kind of a little scary and bold.

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.

Transparency may be the most disruptive and far-reaching innovation to come out of social media.

Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

Invention is by its very nature disruptive. If you want to be understood at all times, then don't do anything new.

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

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

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

People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.

Sustaining innovations are the key to consistent performance, whereas disruptive innovations are the key to dramatic changes in power.

Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.

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

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.

True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - IS innately disruptive of “business as usual.” That is WHY it is effective.

Gene Roberts, one of Malcolm's X chiefs of security, was an NYPD undercover cop. He later went on to bigger things by being a disruptive force inside of the Black Panther Party.

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

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

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.

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.

There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.

In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.

We believe trial judges confronted with disruptive, contumacious, stubbornly defiant defendants must be given sufficient discretion to meet the circumstances in each case.

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

All Disruption starts with introspection.

The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.

I love being in love. I don't think anything compares with it, though I consider it very disruptive.

If the technology is disruptive, on the other hand, the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will have been toppled and new companies will be on top.

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.

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.

But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share.

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

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

Young people can be disruptive and screw up classes. But even if they are being a pain in the arse it's a cry for help - they don't feel like they are being listened to.

I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive - a 9/11 - it's a no-brainer.

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

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

A body without bones would be a limp impossible mess, so a day without steady routine would be disruptive and chaotic.

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

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.