Quotes About Disruption

I remember trying not to disrupt everyone else in the room, fumbling around trying to figure out how to use the medium with a beautiful model disrobed in front of me.

A relentless barrage of 'why's' is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo. Use it often.

Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs.

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - IS innately disruptive of "business as usual." That is WHY it is effective.

The time to go into a new business is when it's badly run by others.

Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

In 15 years from now half of US universities may be in bankruptcy ... in the end I'm excited to see that happen. So pray for Harvard Business School if you wouldn't mind.

To the people of Illinois let me say this. Business as usual IS OVER.

It will be only a matter of time before the music business establishment completely folds.

Most companies are built to execute today's business model, not discover tomorrow's.

Socrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.

The web attacks traditional ways of doing things and elites, and this is very uncomfortable for traditional businesses to deal with.

Business models change. As technology processes, business models change.