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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All Disruption starts with introspection.

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

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

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...

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

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

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

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

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

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

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

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

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

…[I]ron discipline does not preclude but presupposes criticism and contest of opinion within the Party. Least of all does it mean that discipline must be ‘blind’. On the contrary, iron discipline does not preclude but...

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

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

Success doesn’t teach as many lessons as failure

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

20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That’s assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.

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.

Some things that seem better done tomorrow would be best done today

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

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

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

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

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

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

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

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