Self Improvement Quotes

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

~ Jay Samit

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

~ Jay Samit

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

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 can't.

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

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

~ Jay Samit

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

Fair only counts with people who are fair.

~ Sharon Law Tucker

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

~ Jay Samit

Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated nature. Demosthenes took unbounded pains with his voice, and Cicero, who was naturally weak, made a long journey into Greece to correct his manner of speaking. With far nobler themes, let us not be less ambitious to excel.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Don't be limited by your limitations.

~ Sharon Law Tucker

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

Whoever controls the money, controls you!

~ Sharon Law Tucker

Self-esteem, self confidence

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My whole thing was, if I can put in 5 percent of the effort of somebody getting an A, and I can get a C minus, that’s amazing,” he explains. “It’s certainly good enough, right? [Then] I can take the other 95 percent of the time and invest it in something I really care about.

~ David Heinemeier Hansson

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

~ Jay Samit

Don't be afraid to say No. It's empowering. Remember, a Yes is a commitment. Give them wisely.

~ Sharon Law Tucker

It's all about educating people to value you as much a they value themselves. If you respect your time, others will too.

~ Sharon Law Tucker