Disruptive Quotes

• Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Running, Dream, People

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from May 09, 2014

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• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The most common misunderstanding of disruptive innovations is to overestimate their impact in the short term and underestimate it in the long term. Another common misunderstanding is to associate disruptive with good.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Impact, Long, Innovation

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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  Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Sustaining innovations are the key to consistent performance, whereas disruptive innovations are the key to dramatic changes in power.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Keys, Innovation, Dramatic

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Peace, War, Makers

  Daniel Berrigan (2009). “They Call Us Dead Men: Reflections on Life and Conscience”, p.7, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Success, Crazy

  "U.S., China, Russia, Elon Musk: Entrepreneur's "insane" vision becomes reality". Interview with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. May 22, 2012.

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• If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

  Al Goldstein

  Cheating, Stay Strong, Divorce

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• If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

  Richard Branson

  Motivational, Inspiring, Powerful

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2018

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• There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.

  Richard Branson

  Powerful, Passion, World

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• The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Facts, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

  Rebel Wilson

  Dark, Tragedy, Littles

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• What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

  Peggy Lee

  Music, Jazz, Defense Mechanisms

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• More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Perfection, Progress, Execution

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• You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Leadership, Passion

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• What are you going to do when you are not saving the world.

  Hans Zimmer

  World, Saving, Defense Mechanisms

  "Song: 'What Are You Going to Do When You Are Not Saving the World?' (Album: Man of Steel)". 2013.

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• Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Inspirational, Entrepreneur, World

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from May 06, 2014

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• Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Opportunity, Normal, Disruption

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: : Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2004.

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• The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.

  Naomi Wolf

  Usual, Firsts, Quiet

  "The First Amendment and the Obligation to Peacefully Disrupt in a Free Society". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2011.

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• We have [unfriendly policies] here in Europe, too. We have them here in Germany, too. And to take up where the president left off, digitization is in a way a disruptive force, a disruptive technological force that brings about deep-seated change, transformation of a society.

  Angela Merkel

  Europe, President, Germany

  Source: time.com

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• In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue a truly disruptive strategy.

  Clayton Christensen

  Successful, Strategy, Ceo

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.

  Umair Haque

  Reality, Status Quo

  "From The Vault: Umair Haque: Redefining How We Measure Economic Growth". Interview with Dylan Ratigan, www.dylanratigan.com. December 2011.

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• It's really important to be disruptive and do things that actually are kind of a little scary and bold.

  Christopher Bailey

  Scary, Important, Littles

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• Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

  Naomi Wolf

  Democracy, Politics, Disruption

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