1.
You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.
Jay Samit
2.
Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.
Jay Samit
3.
The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.
Jay Samit
4.
Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.
Jay Samit
5.
Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.
Jay Samit
6.
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
7.
Disruptors don't have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.
Jay Samit
8.
Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.
Jay Samit
9.
No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.
Jay Samit
10.
A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.
Jay Samit
11.
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.
Jay Samit
12.
Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.
Jay Samit
13.
All Disruption starts with introspection.
Jay Samit
14.
The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.
Jay Samit
15.
An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.
Jay Samit
16.
The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.
Jay Samit
17.
To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.
Jay Samit
18.
The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.
Jay Samit
19.
At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.
Jay Samit
20.
Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.
Jay Samit
21.
Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.
Jay Samit
22.
Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.
Jay Samit
23.
A dream with a deadline is a goal.
Jay Samit
24.
There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.
Jay Samit
25.
Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.
Jay Samit
26.
Security doesn't rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.
Jay Samit
27.
Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.
Jay Samit
28.
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
29.
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
30.
Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.
Jay Samit
31.
The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.
Jay Samit
32.
You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.
Jay Samit
33.
Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.
Jay Samit
34.
The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.
Jay Samit
35.
There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen.
Jay Samit
36.
A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.
Jay Samit
37.
Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.
Jay Samit
38.
Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.
Jay Samit
39.
In life, you get what you believe you deserve.
Jay Samit
40.
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
41.
Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?
Jay Samit
42.
If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?
Jay Samit
43.
You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.
Jay Samit
44.
The most important tool you have on a resume is language.
Jay Samit
45.
Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure
Jay Samit
46.
Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.
Jay Samit
