Quotes About Disruption

Some people have blithely dismissed growth in markets like China and India, saying Silicon Valley will always be the hub for tech: that everyone will come to us. Wake up: Because the numbers are showing money and talent is increasingly going elsewhere.

I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.

The story of Google is just when everyone concluded that a search engine would never make any money, everyone backed out of it, and Google walked into that vacuum and dominated.

There's a difference between being able to make long distance phone calls cheaper on the Internet and walking around Riyadh with a PDA where you can have all of Google in your pocket. It's a difference in degree that's so enormous it becomes a difference in kind.

When a change in how some element of one's business is conducted becomes an order of magnitude larger than what that business is accustomed to, then all bets are off.

'Billboard' needs to tell the truth, shake things up.

Bitcoin is here to stay.

For Bitcoin, if it becomes a thing, it will become an enormous thing. It will be world-changing. But if it's nothing, it's nothing. There is no in between.

We don't think the blockchain can do most of what's been ascribed to it. But we're entering the Internet of value - and that is very much underhyped.

We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked.

The great artists of music have always innovated and boldly changed the game, but the industry itself has not.

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.

You have to push the boundary, do something that people haven't seen before, because then it is exciting for them.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

Airbnb started with 'air bed and breakfast.'

I like breaking the rules.

It feels like breaking rules is almost a given now on TV.

My name is Brian and I am a troll. An internet troll.

I'm excited about bringing robots into the market, about having the most effect in the world.

If no one ever broke the rules, then we'd never advance.

I broke things to get attention.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

Not all change and disruption succeeds, to be sure.