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...

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.

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.

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

To succeed in the digital realm, technology has to provide a strong disruptive element right from the start. If things cannot be done differently , a transition to digital is not going to be compelling...

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.

Disruptive technology where you really have a big technology discontinuity… tends to come from new companies.

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.

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.