Jay Samit Quotes

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

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

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

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.

Disruptors don't have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

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

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

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

All Disruption starts with introspection.

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

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

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

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

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

Security doesn't rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.

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

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

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.

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

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

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.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

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

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

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.