Disruptive Quotes

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

  Peggy Lee

  Music, Jazz, Defense Mechanisms

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• A lot has been written about the Internet bust. From my point of view, it's quite clear the Internet isn't a category; the Internet is a technological infrastructure that can be deployed to facilitate a disruptive business model or a sustaining business model.

  Clayton Christensen

  Views, Internet, Categories

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• If you are trying to appear calm and collected on the outside when actually you are feeling upset and angry, your children may mirror this to you by becoming wild and disruptive. While you are trying to maintain control, they pick up the chaotic energy inside of you and reflect it in their behavior. If you express directly what you are feeling, without trying to cover it up, they will usually calm down. They feel comfortable with the truth, the congruity between your feelings and your words. This is true of other relationships as well.

  Shakti Gawain

  Children, Mirrors, Feelings

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, New World Library

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• I'm starting to believe that part of the solution regarding the devices is that they have a role to play in engaging the customer and keeping our product in front of them during the pre-show. They certainly have a role to play in ticket sales. Inside the movie auditorium, though, during the feature presenation there's no place for them. Every single weekend two out of the top three reasons people contact us are: somebody's being disruptive, with a device most of the time, or a dirty bathroom.

  Gerry Lopez

  Believe, Dirty, Weekend

  Source: deadline.com

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• In certain circumstances, financial markets can affect the so-called fundamentals which they are supposed to reflect. When that happens, markets enter into a state of dynamic disequilibrium and behave quite differently from what would be considered normal by the theory of efficient markets. Such boom/bust sequences do not arise very often, but when they do, they can be very disruptive, exactly because they affect the fundamentals of the economy.

  George Soros

  Would Be, Fundamentals, Normal

  "Theory of Reflexivity". George Soros' speech at the MIT Department of Economics World Economy Laboratory Conference in Washington, D.C., www.valuewalk.com. April 26, 1994.

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• We may end up with a world based more on equity than debt, or more on market debt instruments than bank intermediation; but how and why we get there is a mystery. Absent significant regulatory or tax changes, and a sharp transition could be disruptive.

  Alan M. Taylor

  Transition, Debt, World

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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