Disruptive Quotes

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

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.

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

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

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

I was a disruptive child.

Donald Trump's message to people is that he's a disruptive force that can descend into Washington as a nonpolitician and try to change some of the morass that happens in Washington.

The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

If Donald Trump is one thing, he's a disruptive force who has never met a tradition and precedent that he doesn't want to disrupt.

[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.

The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit.

In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue a truly disruptive strategy.

I like to think that Not For Sale is the Juniper Networks of the social section, a disruptive innovator.

Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.

So far from being an isolated phenomenon the late war is only an example of the disruptive result that we may constantly expect from the progress of science.

I think that - that the disruptive nature, the tough talk on North Korea, the military deployments, sending the missile defense system to South Korea, I think these are all good things to have done.

All disruptive innovators make it easier and more affordable for people to do what matters to them, and follow a strategy that doesn't at first glance make sense to the market leader.

Teams working on disruptive ideas need to be small enough that they can be fed by no more than two pizzas.

The school at which you studied - design school, disruptive school, TRIZ school, user-centered innovation school, etc - determines the specific words you use.

The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation.

My lifestyle got so disruptive to my family that my parents had no choice but to say, "You can't live here any longer if you're going to live this way." So, I was thrilled about it - thrilled!

You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.