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.

Entrepreneur, take a bite out of Apple’s innovation so in turn you can bear fruits of creativity.

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.

Creativity is the new currency, so, are you credited with new thoughts or overdrawn in old thinking?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Disruption isn’t about what happens to you, it’s about how you respond to what happens to you.

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

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse.

Success doesn’t teach as many lessons as failure

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

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

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

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

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

All Disruption starts with introspection.

Disruptors don’t have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn’t try than the ones you tried and didn’t succeed at.

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

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative 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.

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...