Quotes About Disruption

A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry.

Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank.

A new age is approaching, and its advent might make us pray to go back to the days of the trenches. Once the Worldwaker goes off, we will never be able to sleep again.

One small boy was all it took to upset the universe

War isn't about making historywar is about breaking the present.

There is a shotgun wedding going on and its between Marketing and IT. Finance's worst nightmare

My favorite part of going to a wedding is ruining the wedding.

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.

My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It's been very profitable and entertaining for me

By nature, looking is a disruptive task.

If you just do what you're doing, you're going to do what you do. Time to interrupt patterns.

He was like a huge smug albatross waddling around my desk, squawking vacuously and crapping all over my paperwork.

Always fuck with people's expectations, sunshine. It's good for their circulation.

When we pause, we don't know what will happen next. But by disrupting our habitual behaviors, we open to the possibility of new and creative ways of responding to our wants and fears.

family secret that was about to disrupt her

Tumultuarios! ¡Proscritos!

They weren't drunk—they were just being loud. I was trying out for the football team and needed to get some sleep. One night I'd finally had enough and when Ted ran by my open window I reached out, grabbed him by the throat, and pulled him halfway into my room. I said, "Hey, what the hell's the matter with you?

Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.