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

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

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

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

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.

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

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

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

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

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...

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.

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

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

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

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

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

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

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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