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There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and secretive economic and political force in America.

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.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

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.

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.

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.

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

All Disruption starts with introspection.

I guess that's why they call it Hell.

Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.

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

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.

Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.

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

I want to remind the viewers that people like Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama endorsed the Occupy Wall Street movement which is actually full of anarchists.

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

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

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.

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

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?

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

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