Disruption Quotes

• 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

  Alive, Anarchy, Causes

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• True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.

  Peter Diamandis

  Mean, Past, Lines

  "Why Billion-Dollar, 100-Year-Old Companies DIE" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Mean, People

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• Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity.

  Robert Scoble

  Opportunity, Causes, Inevitable

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• If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

  Marian Diamond

  Change, Workout, Emotional

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• The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.

  Steve Case

  Opportunity, Pace, Threat

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• It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confusion

  Joyce Carol Oates (1973). “Scenes from American life: contemporary short fiction”

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

  Jay Samit

  Journey, Legs, Next

  Twitter post from Sep 19, 2015

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• Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

  Naomi Wolf

  Democracy, Politics, Democratic

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• The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Nature, Purpose, Chaos

  William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International

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• 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

  Technology, Long, Would Be

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• Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

  Thomas Friedman

  Oil, Ties, Would Be

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• Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

  Jay Samit

  Self, Scalpels, Surgery

  Twitter post from May 20, 2016

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• All Disruption starts with introspection.

  Jay Samit

  Introspection

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation”, p.5, Macmillan

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• Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Opportunity, Normal, Offers

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: : Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2004.

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• In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

  Tom Robbins

  Men, Artist, Order

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.215, Bantam

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• The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.

  Aaron Levie

  Starting Out, Way, Ifs

  Twitter post from May 10, 2013

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• Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Noise, Pessimism, Form

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing
  great work. Progress is disruption and change.

  Darren Hardy

  People, Progress, Great Work

  Darren Hardy (2015). “The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster: Why Now Is the Time to #Join the Ride”, p.57, Greenleaf Book Group

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• Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

  Marc Andreessen

  Years, Valleys, World

  "Barefoot Networks' New Chips Will Transform The Tech Industry" by Cade Metz, www.wired.com. June 14, 2016.

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• Disruption on the first day always looks like a toy.

  Steve Blank

  Looks, Firsts, Toys

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• 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

  Purpose, Facts, Action

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• Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.

  Clayton Christensen

  Powerful, Ideas, Want

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• Democracy is disruptive. Around the world, peaceful protesters are being demonised for this, but there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. Protesters ideally should read Gandhi and King and dedicate themselves to disciplined, long-term, non-violent disruption of business as usual - especially disruption of traffic.

  Naomi Wolf

  Kings, Long, Peaceful

  "How to Occupy the moral and political high ground" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• 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

  Football, Falling In Love, Pain

  "Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life". Book by Nick Hornby, 1992.

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