Change Quotes

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

~ Jay Samit

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

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

If you have experienced recurring situations in your life that are unpleasant, know that there is something you are supposed to be getting from those situations that you have not been getting and that the moment you get it, those situations will pass out of your life, not to return.

~ Chris Prentiss

You don't feel like your best self when you fall apart, but you have to fall apart to become your best self.

~ Richie Norton

Trying to fix the shortcoming of others while ignoring your own flaws results in little if no improvement―not to mention bitter feelings. Concentrating on personal growth sets a good example and results in the improvement of one life if not more.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe.

~ Chris Prentiss

Self-improvement without self-love is like building a house upon sand. You can build and build, but it will always sink.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

If you want to change the world, first change yourself, then tell others how you did it. Never demand that people change. Inspire them to change using your own change as an example instead.

~ Dan Pearce

If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.

~ Dale Carnegie

Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can't stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes.

~ Steve Goodier

Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.

~ Steve Goodier

Do the little things. In the future when you look back, they'd have made the greatest change.

~ Nike Thaddeus

When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture the seeds you sow. Even more than you can imagine will grow there if given a chance.

~ Steve Goodier

The Paradox of Change: People can only change when they feel accepted as they are now. Dr. Arnold Beisser Pg 220

~ John Kuypers

We are always people that are in the making, constantly adapting to accommodate the roads we walk. As we learn, it changes us. As we go about our course, we grow, and prune everything around us; friends, beliefs, desires. Our past experiences plant the seeds needed for our future roads, with all its turns, speed, and treachery.

~ Kat Lahr

When we set a goal we are fulfilling our destiny. Even if we do not reach it, we have changed our lives and the lives of others by attempting to reach it.

~ Lawren Leo

Mere hope isn't enough to change destiny. One must act.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation, and further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you can make up a new one.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

Man needs to choose, not just accept his destiny.

~ Paulo Coelho

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

~ Jean Thompson