Quotes About Disruption

As so often happens in human affairs, fate intervened at the moment of victory and destroyed the best-laid plans.

When the doorbell rings at three o'clock in the morning its never good news

I want to do roles that allow me to push my boundaries and provoke us to think differently.

When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.

Self-publishing has been a dubious challenge to traditional publishers, at best.

A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

We've all seen so many plays where there's brilliant acting and suddenly there's so many dreadful punches that it takes you out of the moment, or somebody does some bit of violence that jars.

All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business.

All punk rockers hate Christmas.

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

I feel my role is to push boundaries. I don't like things to be safe and sedentary. So controversy is the cross I have to bear.

I prefer to create friction. Because if you're not pushing buttons, you're just making something pleasant; it's probably been done before, and it's not making anyone feel anything.

We, as a company, take the most risks in pushing the boundaries on consumer expectations.

The concept of getting out of my routine, mixing it up, and pushing myself to live the grittiest life is something I try to incorporate every day.

I just understand that I'm supposed to be one of those people that disrupts the flavor a little bit instead of being part of the same sound as everyone else.

One of the early lessons that I learned in leadership is that it's the leader's job to always go against the flow.

She defaced my fly. And I've never been the same since.

I enjoy putting teams under pressure, forcing turn-overs and just being a pain really!

If you think 20 years out and ask what's the most important company on the planet, it is not any company you could write down today. The most important company 20 years from now has not even been founded yet and doesn't have a name.

Sometimes freedom from normal rules is what gives you competitive advantage.

If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

There's always a little bit of friction when you're trying to democratize an industry.

It's hard to think of a single human function that technology hasn't somehow altered, apart perhaps from burping. That's pretty much all we have left.