Great leaders catch and correct problems while they’re still small and able to be managed without a lot of hassle. If ignored too long, small problems will morph into much bigger issues that will require...

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.

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...

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

All businesses — no matter if they make dog food or software — don’t sell products, they sell solutions.

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

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

The weather is nature’s disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature’s disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

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.

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

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

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

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more...

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

Innovation and disruption are ideas that originated in the arena of business but which have since been applied to arenas whose values and goals are remote from the values and goals of business. People aren’t...

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

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.

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

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.

Winter arrived with December, and the world continued to suffer the loss of the Internet and most forms of communication. Supply chains were disrupted. The only mass form of personal communication was the letter, and...

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

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

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

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

The customer is always right…even when they’re wrong.

I am deep in my willed habits. From the outside, I suppose I look like an unoccupied house with one unconvincing night-light left on. Any burglar could look through my curtains and conclude I am...

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

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

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

If you don’t know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

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

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

Root cause of inequality is the mass scale digital disruption advantage as means of wealth creation is concentrated.

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

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

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

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

A free and open Internet is a despot’s worst enemy.

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.

Seems like the world is spinning smooth without a bump or squeak except when love comes in. Then the whole machine just quits like a loud load of wash on imbalance–the buzzer singing to high...

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

Security doesn’t rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

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

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