Quotes About Disruption

The next Google or Facebook will come from somewhere other than Silicon Valley.

Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia.

Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.

Silicon Valley's long-running track record of creating globally disruptive startups is the envy of the world.

The best training ground in the world is Silicon Valley and the tech space.

Silicon Valley has a lot of noise, a lot of hype. People are very excited about all of the Facebook stuff, Facebook applications. It's just been a huge hype over the last year when actually... there isn't really that much value.

Part of the beauty of Silicon Valley is that people generally encourage you to think crazy. It's the hypothesis that there's nothing sacred that can't be changed.

Some people in Silicon Valley are as bad as the 'Koch Brothers', you know? Don't be mistaken. For every some of those, though, you get people who come up with something like 'Leafly', which does what 'Yelp' has done, but in a much more specific way, and it's important because it's the dawn of this new era.

There's no more silicon in Silicon Valley. It's all iPhone apps.

Even by Silicon Valley standards, PayPal's vision was massively ambitious.

It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing.

I'm coming to Silicon Valley to turn up!

When you look around Silicon Valley at new companies, there are very few ideas that are going to make a dent in the universe.

In order to protect against being disrupted, startups also need to recruit employees that are committed to life-long learning. The skills that made your team members valuable may not be the skills needed to take your company to the next level or to compete in emerging markets.

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present - and that's not fully valued.

Internet-centric companies have already begun changing the rules with binge-watching, flexible running times, fewer commercials, and crowd-sourced content. The brainpower - and just plain power - of the most valued tech firms will change things even more.

The stock market clearly values companies that can deliver disruptive innovation.

JOHN BELUSHI ENTERED my life with the crash of a door, a broken chair, and maybe pots flying out of the kitchen cabinets.

Disruptive innovation is good. Disruption for the sake of disruption is not. Culture

She had, in a few short words, utterly defiled, defamed and defaced the finely tuned social order that was the bedrock of the Collective.

Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before.

Hire disrespectful people.