Quotes About Disruption

The pump don't work cause the vandals took the handle

Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure.

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.

We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.

A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.

Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.

Our view is that just because Amazon can disrupt somebody else's profit stream, it doesn't mean that Amazon earns that profit stream.

I've always maintained that if I didn't have the boot and was talking serious things on the street corner, it would be very easy to ignore me.

Employees speak of being fearful opening emails and feeling increasingly helpless in the face of the deluge. Physiologically, we now know that the state of continuous disruption puts us into a constant state of hormone-induced stress.

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

It's harder than ever to build an enduring company. As soon as a product strikes a nerve with customers, competitors emerge globally because the costs to start are so low.

The structural changes of globalization and automation that has created concentrated wealth among some people who have had the right skills and the right opportunities has also created extraordinary disruption and havoc among the American middle-class.

In football you need to look to make life difficult for the opponent.

As opposed to thinking about ourselves as disrupting the fashion industry, we're thinking about ourselves more broadly - about disrupting the closet and how you get dressed.

In our system of government, an opposition party doesn't have the ability to pass legislation, but it has the ability to massively screw things up.

Growth comes from chaos, not order.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Originality is dangerous.

At school, I was a lot more advanced compared to the other kids but I didn't like authority and was kicked out for fighting.

The blockchain is the financial challenge of our time. It is going to change the way that our financial world operates.

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.