Quotes by Jay Samit

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 -- dont sell products, they sell solutions.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesnt 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?

Disruption isnt about what happens to you, its 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.