True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses. — Peter Diamandis
The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men. — Criss Jami
In a world driven by disruption, make sure you're on the right side of change. — Cathie Wood
Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order. — Margaret J. Wheatley
Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. — Tuli Kupferberg
Youth → broken DNA → genome instability → disruption of DNA packaging and gene regulation — David Sinclair
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives. — William Throsby Bridges
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself. — Alain Badiou
Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together. — Unknown
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. — Alvin Toffler
It's really important to be disruptive and do things that actually are kind of a little scary and bold. — Christopher Bailey
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live. — Mary Catherine Bateson
Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth. — Tom Barrett
Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency. — Lennox Lewis
The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs. — Michael Saylor
Disruption starts with committing to excellence and taking a stand for your customer. — Lewis Howes
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. — John F. Kennedy
What are you going to do when you are not saving the world. — Hans Zimmer
What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop. — Peggy Lee
I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. — Caskie Stinnett
If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got. — Marian Diamond
You blow in this end of the trombone and sound comes out the other end and disrupts the cosmos. — Roswell Rudd
Transparency may be the most disruptive and far-reaching innovation to come out of social media. — Paul Gillin
Don't look for ideas that will confirm your thinking; rather look for trends that will disrupt your thoughts.
Digital Disruption Quotes
Starting in the mid-1990s, the end-to-end ubiquity of the Internet, combined with its cheapness, spontaneously combusted to give us Napster - a site that revolutionized the music industry overnight. We got P2P file swapping in the film and TV industry as well. — Max Keiser
Objectively, the world is improving. To the elites, it’s falling apart as their long-lived institutions are flattened by the Internet. — Naval Ravikant
However digital transformation comes with challenges, risks, disruptions that are new and developing. — Joko Widodo
I often had to pass over photographs because in a mass of animals invariably one would be wandering in the wrong direction, thereby disrupting the pattern I was trying to achieve. Today the ability to digitally alter this disruption is at hand. — Art Wolfe
The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business. — Ken Auletta
We have [unfriendly policies] here in Europe, too. We have them here in Germany, too. And to take up where the president left off, digitization is in a way a disruptive force, a disruptive technological force that brings about deep-seated change, transformation of a society. — Angela Merkel
The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio. — Ken Auletta
Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution. — John Sununu
The evolving social and digital media platforms and highly innovative and relevant payment capabilities are causing seismic changes in consumer behavior and creating equally disruptive opportunities for business. — Howard Schultz
Innovation And Disruption Quotes
Companies disrupting the traditional world order - like Tesla and Square - are wise to hedge their fiat reserves with Bitcoin. Other companies in harm’s way because of disruptive innovation should be investing their cash in new technologies to avoid creative destruction. — Cathie Wood
Much like Airbnb and Uber disrupted their relevant businesses, we can lower the bar for people to enter into the telecommunications market. — Micky Watkins
You see all these people predicting ADA at $3, $5 or $10… and that’s the least interesting thing and the most disruptive thing that can happen for the project. — Charles Hoskinson
In contrast to how tech firms want to disrupt and break things - developing drugs must be incremental and step-by-step. — Vivek Ramaswamy
Aristotle was talking about happiness 2,000 years ago. Every area of our life has been disrupted and innovated apart from personal growth and self-awareness. — Jay Shetty
The most common misunderstanding of disruptive innovations is to overestimate their impact in the short term and underestimate it in the long term. Another common misunderstanding is to associate disruptive with good. — Geoffrey Moore
All disruptive innovators make it easier and more affordable for people to do what matters to them, and follow a strategy that doesn't at first glance make sense to the market leader. — Scott D. Anthony
I want the definition of startup back. To be used by anybody who is willing to take the risk to quit their corporate job and go out and try and build an innovative, disruptive, tech-enabled business that tries to change the way things work in the world. — Mark Suster
The attackers are the people with bold, innovative ideas who are trying to disrupt the status quo and usher in a better way. The defenders are the incumbents who try to defend what they have. We need to bring an attacker mindset to whatever we choose to do. — Steve Case
Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y,' so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't. — Eric Ries
Technology Disruption Quotes
The industries that fall first are the industries that either produce electromechanical items that are now inferior to their software substitutes, or the industries that produce a mechanically created service that's now inferior. — Michael Saylor
Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center. — Vitalik Buterin
For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date. — Laurent Fabius
Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive. — Eric Schmidt
Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice. — Evgeny Morozov
There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no natural death to be counted on to stop an economic change that ripped up ancestral estates or stirred up class discontent. — Robert Heilbroner
If, technologically, it is possible to make an impenetrable device or system where the encryption is so strong that there's no key - there's no door at all - then how do we apprehend the child pornographer? How do we solve or disrupt a terrorist plot? — Barack Obama
If the technology is disruptive, on the other hand, the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will have been toppled and new companies will be on top. — Clayton Christensen
But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share. — Trip Hawkins
Making really great music, making really great films, writing great books is an antidote to all of that. And, as people, as artists, some of the massive disruption that technology is causing is so exciting, the way that people can share creativity now. — Edward Norton
Market Disruption Quotes
As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run. — Barry Eichengreen
If you want to create new markets, or disrupt old ones, you create ubiquitous infrastructure. — David "Doc" Searls
The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling. — Jeff Bezos
We may end up with a world based more on equity than debt, or more on market debt instruments than bank intermediation; but how and why we get there is a mystery. Absent significant regulatory or tax changes, and a sharp transition could be disruptive. — Alan M. Taylor
Almost every disruption starts at the perceived fringes of today's market. — Scott D. Anthony
I myself have invested in Uber and Hailo, I think they offer great alternatives to disrupt markets that have remained unchanged for many years. — Richard Branson
When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around. — Jeb Bush
Complex regulation in place of simple-rules capitalism disrupts market processes and corrupts business incentives. — Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
We always enter markets where the leaders are not doing a great job, so we can go in and disrupt them by offering better quality services. — Richard Branson
As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt: Avoid competition as much as possible. — Peter Thiel
Business Disruption Quotes
If you're someone in the business of verifying transactions on a proprietary network, the invention of Bitcoin cannot be safely ignored. It will change or disrupt the providers of most proprietary payment networks in the coming years. — Brian Armstrong
Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents.
Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world. — Mother Teresa
Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - IS innately disruptive of “business as usual.” That is WHY it is effective. — Naomi Wolf
Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants. — Jay Samit
The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right. — Naomi Wolf
There is two things that can disrupt business in this country. One is War, and the other is a meeting of the Federal Reserve Bank. — Will Rogers
Most companies think of disruption as a threat. But disruptive innovations have tremendous growth potential. If incumbent companies can learn how to harness the forces of disruption, they too can improve their ability to create new-growth businesses. — Clayton Christensen
Try to learn as fast as you can from the wizards and then steal what you can appropriate from them and use it to modernize your existing business model (without disrupting it). — Geoffrey Moore
While advocates of legalized gambling say it brings in revenues needed for education and other uses, it actually has led to higher taxes, loss of jobs, economic disruption of non-gambling businesses, increased crime and higher social-welfare costs — John Warren Kindt
A lot has been written about the Internet bust. From my point of view, it's quite clear the Internet isn't a category; the Internet is a technological infrastructure that can be deployed to facilitate a disruptive business model or a sustaining business model. — Clayton Christensen
Disruptive Disruption Quotes
Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels … that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up. — J. Edgar Hoover
Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our collective neurosis, we have raped the earth, disrupted the delicate balance of nature, and created phallic missiles of mass destruction. — Marion Woodman
If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later! — Richard Branson
Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE. — Sid Vicious
AI means a brilliant doctor on your phone. Who can diagnose you instantly, for free, privately, using only your locally stored medical records. Do you think the doctors will be happy about that? Or the lawyers? The artists? The others that AI disrupts? They’ll fight it. Hard. — Balaji Srinivasan
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way. — Bernie Siegel
Within the coming years, disrupting the Bitcoin network will become increasingly more difficult as Bitcoin wallet software and the protocol become more mature and resilient. — Brian Armstrong
Inadequate sleep—even moderate reductions for just one week—disrupts blood sugar levels so profoundly that you would be classified as pre-diabetic. — Matthew Walker
I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid. — John Corbett
Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling, and which repetitions become domesticated and recirculated as instruments of cultural hegemony — Judith Butler
Sustaining innovations are the key to consistent performance, whereas disruptive innovations are the key to dramatic changes in power. — Geoffrey Moore
We have found that companies need to speak a common language, because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counter-intuitive. If companies don't have that common language, it is hard for them to come to consensus on a counter-intuitive course of action. — Clayton Christensen
The school at which you studied - design school, disruptive school, TRIZ school, user-centered innovation school, etc - determines the specific words you use. — Scott D. Anthony
I like to think that Not For Sale is the Juniper Networks of the social section, a disruptive innovator. — David Batstone
The telephone is an antiquity - you never know who is calling, there is no image, it is an outmoded product which constantly disrupts work. — Ralf Hutter
The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit. — Clayton Christensen
The best antidote to the disruptive power of innovation is overregulation. — Tim Wu
The business world is constantly being disrupted with new automations and technologies, and this is a good thing. — Paul Jarvis
The more general skepticism about another millennial that likes to claim they're disrupting another industry - that doesn't serve me well. — Vivek Ramaswamy
I ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I was so disruptive to the rest of the household, that I could no longer live under their roof. — Tullian Tchividjian
DON'T wear loud clanging bangles at work, it's disruptive and noisy and your coworkers won't appreciate it! Bangles should have a gentle wind-chimey tinkle, not the crash bang of a million pots and pans. — Padma Lakshmi
Antibacterial toothpaste disrupts the balance of bacteria in the mouth, leading to an imbalance and overgrowth of bacteria that can cause disease and other oral health issues. — Mark Burhenne
Exposure to some pesticides during infancy, even at very low levels, can lead to serious life-long consequences if the pesticides disrupt hormone-driven developmental processes. — Charles Benbrook
People who want to succeed should think like a disrupter... That's going to become more and more true, because so much is changing. — Cathie Wood
I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it. — Nick Hornby
No magic bullet, not even the Internet, can save us from population explosion, deforestation, climate disruption, poison by pollution, and wholesale extinction of plant and animal species. We are going to have to want different things, seek different pleasures, pursue different goals than those that have been driving us and our global economy. — Joanna Macy
Most of us know exactly what it is that creates the pain, confusion, stagnation and disruption in our lives. When we find something or someone creating in our lives that which we do not want, we must muster the courage and strength to stop it. — Iyanla Vanzant
The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden grows beyond a bearable size, the problem of devising taxes that will not discourage and disrupt production becomes insoluble. — Henry Hazlitt
There are other dimensions of biotechnology. If you think of biotechnology like the Internet, it's not a category - it's an infrastructure that can be deployed to sustain or disrupt. In health care, the most complex problems at the high end have to be dealt with in a problem-solving mode by the best, most experienced physicians you can find. — Clayton Christensen
If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy. — Hyman Minsky
Sometimes it appears that we're reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We seem to be approaching an Age of the Gross. Persuasion through speeches and books is too often discarded for disruptive demonstrations aimed at bludgeoning the unconvinced into action. — Spiro T. Agnew
Consider that spiritual safety comes through spiritual unity. Christians united together are difficult to separate, difficult to break, difficult to pick off and destroy. It is when you isolate yourself by disrupting or denying unity that you are most at risk. — Thomas Brooks
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. — Pablo Neruda
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