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Quotes About Disruption

Every year, thousands of startups are founded - not only in technology, but increasingly also in health care, education, and energy.
~ Mike Krieger
The dreadful terrorism perpetrated by Palestinian terrorist organizations has affected thousands of Israeli citizens, has destroyed families, and has tried to disrupt the lives of the citizens of Israel.
~ Ehud Olmert
The age of access being offered by taxi-hailing apps like Uber and Ola is the biggest potential threat to auto industry.
~ Anand Mahindra
We're all essentially surgically connected to our smartphones, and we're still in the early stages of realizing their medical potential. But they should be a real threat to the medical profession.
~ Eric Topol
When you're a large company with significant market share, it's tempting to view market disruptions as a threat, but we view them as an opportunity.
~ John T. Chambers
Climate change threatens serious economic disruption to us all with serious implications to global stability and the impact it will have on the whole of humanity.
~ Ed Davey
Ever since the first power looms put weavers out of work in the late 18th century, technology has increased productivity but threatened jobs for humans.
~ Arancha Gonzalez
True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.
~ Peter Diamandis
Digital currency attempts to disrupt the financial industry, and it's potentially threatening to the existing financial services industry, but it doesn't have to be that way.
~ Jeremy Allaire
The FBI is engaged in a myriad of efforts to combat cyber threats, from improving threat identification and information sharing inside and outside of the government to developing and retaining new talent, to examining the way we operate to disrupt and defeat these threats.
~ Christopher A. Wray
The men and women of the FBI are deployed around the clock, all over our country and around the world, identifying and disrupting threats, and pursuing those who would do us harm.
~ Christopher A. Wray
I was a disruptive student. I hated my teachers, especially my Spanish teacher. When I went to see the musical 'Matilda,' the horrible Miss Trunchbull brought back all sorts of horrible memories. I'd go into Spanish class, put on headphones, and sing at the top of my lungs until they threw me out.
~ Steve Kazee
Language is one of the only things that we truly share, and I sometimes used this joint inheritance to obfuscate and deflect and justify myself: to re-brand what was good for me as something appearing good for us both, when I threw around terms like 'the sharing economy' and 'disruption' and 'global resourcing.'
~ Anand Giridharadas
To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection.
~ Jay Samit
Our next CEO needs to thrive in a highly dynamic environment, to be capable of accelerating what is working very well for Cisco and disrupting what needs to change.
~ John T. Chambers
Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.
~ Sam Kinison
Three high schools. I was funny. I thought I was being funny. I just had an opinion about everything that was said in school, so that got me thrown out.
~ Damon Wayans
I was thrown out of every school I ever went to.
~ Richard Belzer
Globally, ride sharing is a very intense industry with a lot of money being thrown around.
~ Bhavish Aggarwal
The problem with large corporations and their competitors is that they subscribe to the same industry magazines, get the same body of research and even hire the same people. The
~ Sahar Hashemi
What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
~ Salvador Dali
You weren't supposed to spill out of the dedication page. But then you fucked everything.
~ Salvador Plascencia
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
~ Sam Walton