Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.
~ Jay Samit
Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.
Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.
A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.
A dream with a deadline is a goal.
A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.
Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.
The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.
If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.
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.
CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.
There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.
The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.
You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.
All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solutions.
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.
There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.
The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.
Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?
Security doesn't rob ambition, the illusion of security robs ambition.
Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.
All Disruption starts with introspection.
Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.
Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.
There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:'You should start where you are
~ Ruth Ozeki
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
Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.
Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.
Do what you love and love what you do, with excellence.
~ Onyi Anyado
An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.
~ Robert A. Rice Jr.
An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.
~ Reid Hoffman
Fear in the absence of knowledge breeds irrationality.We should always seek knowledge, even in the face of fear.
~ Biz Stone
Every startup is a SME but every SME is not a startup.
~ Ookbee Founder
You NEED to learn how to fly before you learn how to land and you MUST learn how to land before you start flying.
~ Samer Chidiac
You have to work on the business first before it works for you.
~ Idowu Koyenikan
Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit.
Entrepreneur, if you're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind
Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.
Be Shameless. Experiment. This is the only way to identify your true passion.
~ Vishwas Mudagal
Entrepreneurs don’t ask for permission. They act per a mission.
