Quotes About Disruption

Every company should work hard to obsolete its own product line - before its competitors do.

If a work of art or a new style disturbs you, then it is probably good work. If you hate it, it is probably great.

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister current is to break the rules we rigidly establish for ourselves.

If we all work together, we can totally disrupt the system.

I was lucky enough to go see Steve Jobs with Marc Benioff. We were talking about the iPad, and one of the things Jobs said - and it was a little self-serving - was go and build your iPad app, and that is going to change the way you think about your online app, and you will go back, and you will redo your online app. I believe that.

If you run a business that isn't cutting edge or doesn't naturally stick out of the crowd, it's your job to be different and get attention.

Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.

I made a bit of a stink. At the time, it was considered very bad form.

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

I think the job of artists is to stir things up.

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

I like bothering people and stirring things up.

By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption.

Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.

Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.

Once electricity and petrol and facilities and food stop, society stops. It's crazy.

I think my software is going to become so ubiquitous, so essential, that if it stops working, there will be riots.

Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It's when growth stops because you're being disrupted that managing becomes really, really hard, and as a result, most disrupted companies simply disappear.

Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

I really think the app store is kind of the killer app for Apple and for Google.

I want to put concepts in front of people that make them laugh or smile or even hate what I do. I'm not interested in just putting clothes in stores.

I think the good thing about the Internet is to give something away and to sell something else. Get a business model like that because the old brick and mortar record stores are falling apart, and the big record companies are collapsing under their own weight.