Wall Street Journal Quotes

“I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.”
― Elmore Leonard

“Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.”
― Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

“No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference.”
― Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

“Disruptors don't have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.”
― Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

“The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.”
― Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

“At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.”
― Jay Samit

“Nearly every time I strayed from the herd, I've made a lot of money. Wandering away from the action is the way to find the new action.”
― Jim Rogers

“Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.”
― Jay Samit

“To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.”
― Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

“Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure”
― Jay Samit

“Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.”
― Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

“Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.”
― Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

“You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.”
― Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

“No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.”
― Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

“Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.”
― Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

“Data may disappoint, but it never lies.”
― Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

“The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.”
― Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

“A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.”
― Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

“Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.”
― Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

“In life, you get what you believe you deserve.”
― Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

“Minimalism is a way of living at the maximum of your potential.”
― Anastasiya Kotelnikova

“Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.”
― Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

“Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.”
― Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

“The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.”
― Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

“Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.”
― Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

“The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.”
― Jay Samit

“The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.”
― Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation

“Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.”
― Peggy Noonan

“Many people imagine that banks lend borrowers the cash parked with them by savers and, since savers don’t need constant access to all their funds, banks can make loans equivalent to many times the money they have on deposit.

In fact, whenever a bank makes a loan and credits the borrower’s account with the funds, it creates new money electronically with a couple of keyboard taps—or in previous decades by the stroke of a banker’s pen.”
― Jason Douglas

“It's so funny how many people today really believe themselves to be the most advanced people who ever lived, 'the arc of history bending towards justice' or whatever the quote is. To me, being attendant to history is a kind of resistance. It offers the possibility of alternative worlds, that there is a reality outside the one we are living in.”
― Zadie Smith