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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.

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

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.

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

Security doesn't rob ambition, the illusion of security robs ambition.

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

All Disruption starts with introspection.

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

Public opinion only affects those who do not know their destiny.

~ Daryl Baugh

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

~ Anthony Jay

The true ENTREPRENEUR is a risk taker, not an excuse maker.

~ Vdexters

Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it.

~ Ryan Lilly

If you aren't practicing what you preach, how can, and why should, anyone trust you?

~ Kim Ha Campbell

A bull market is very much like being in love. You don’t realise its value till it’s gone.

~ Vijay Kedia

In a world full of game players, the only way to set yourself apart is to be a game changer.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It takes more than one individual to make a team.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The real power of a leader is in the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Outstanding success in life, leadership, business, marriage and ministry always come down to a test of whether or not you will make a sacrifice when no one else is watching. The key to our success is what we will do when no one will applaud us or even notice us.

~ Benjamin Suulola

Surviving in business is like surviving in the jungle,you must look for prey while on the lookout for predators.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Depending on someone to make for you money is quite like depending on them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby

~ Agona Apell

Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby

~ Agona Apell

True success is overcoming the fear of being successful.

~ Charles F. Glassman

You are special individual. Never envy others.You never know what they go through.Seek and be inspired by the works of others. Learn their secrets for success.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My friend, doubt is the opposite of faith and the two cannot exist together in the same time and place. Either you believe or you don’t. To build your faith and to absolutely hammer home the incredible importance of embracing the reality that success is a choice.

~ Clay Clark

The future is not about a single mind that sees or predicts - it is about the many.

~ Daniel Egger

When “We’ve always done it that way” is replaced with “Let’s try something new,” associations will leap to greatness.

~ Holly Duckworth

Reboot your beliefs, create new thoughts, and choose powerful action.

~ Holly Duckworth

Flow with change or be dragged.

~ Holly Duckworth

A business reboot is an evolutionary process.

~ Holly Duckworth

To be effective as future organizations, we must know our fellow leaders better, deeper.

~ Holly Duckworth

Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you.

~ Ryan Lilly

We wrote Shift Ahead to document how the smartest companies and organizations shift their strategiesin order to stay relevant in the face of swift and exponential changes in everything from technology tothe forces of globalization, from politics and culture, from consumer tastes to human behavior. Wewanted to find out how they shift ahead – how they stayed ahead of the curve, the competition, and theevolving requirements of their customers – given the barrage of evolving challenges.

~ Allen Adamson

Isn’t it obvious to an organization when a promise is becoming less meaningful to consumers? Couldn’t those organizations that did not successfully shift ahead see that consumers were losing interest? Sure, on Monday night everyone’s a professional quarterback and can tell you which of Sunday’s football plays were foolish, or made for the turning point in the game. Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. It’s foresight, seeing the red flags in advance of the risks, that makes the difference on the road to success. And, so before we get to anything else associated with the process of being able to shift ahead, we get to the red flags.

~ Allen Adamson