disruptive-innovation

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solutions.

You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

Creativity is the new currency, so, are you credited with new thoughts or overdrawn in old thinking?

A $10,000 investment in Dell at its 1988 initial public offering would have yielded a fortune of ~$6 million at the stock__ peak.

Nobody thought the direct business model would work. But work it did, and spectacularly. Until it didn__. And therein lies the tale.

Rhetorical question: Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo?I didn't.

Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

To become the best terrorists of your kind, it will take about 30,000 hours on focused practice. How you think of achieving a goal is not the same as how you want to achieve a goal. Not everything you think about is done the right way it should be done.