Quotes About Disruption

That Will Never Work' is the untold story of Netflix. It's how a handful of people, with no experience in the video business, went from mailing a used Patsy Cline CD and ended up with a publicly traded company.

We often hear people talk about the concept of 'uberization,' where a new technology completely turns an industry on its head and forces us to rethink the way things have always been done. No industry will remain untouched by these forces.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

If you think about jeans or phones or television, we are used to new brands popping up right and left. But in the car industry, we grew up with Mercedes, BMW, General Motors, and Ford, and nobody can remember during his or her upbringing a new car brand coming to life.

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

When ordinary people come together, they can upset the mighty.

For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.

I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just taking it out on the joint custody agreement. But that disruption was bad enough. That was a huge deal for a teenager.

When you hear extraneous noise, they are bored in some way, so it makes me upset. Even coughing, I find, is passive-aggressive, usually.

In order to be who you are as a human being, you need to be willing to upset people.

The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each project.

A big player coming in can change the dynamics of the dressing room, upset the rhythm of the team and end up doing more harm than good.

I frequently find myself praying for punk, for something to come along and upset everybody and ignite a few fires and behave disreputably.

I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Who on earth would expect a band such as Nightwish, to give you, of all people, the phone call, 'Hey, can you come and join us now?' Yeah, that turned everything upside down.

I think the office place is always seen as such a professional, sterile environment, so there's something unusually thrilling about taking that well-behaved, polished environment and turning it upside down and shaking it up.

You can't be an inventor trying to figure a better way of changing the spare tire. That's boring. We need someone who figures out how to hit a button and turn the entire car upside down.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.