Insightful Quotes

Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

More than once have I thought, Why does crime, even when as powerful as Cæsar, and assured of being ...

Very often do the captains of such ships take those absent-minded young philosopher to task, upbraid...

...yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

The more a man judges, the less he loves

The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beauti...

And now a hundred subjective years had passed in those hundred objective hours and he could no longe...

I have a feeling that you're riding for some terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what...

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Other...

Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade mysel...

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say...

There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil - a natural defect, whi...

sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in bu...

Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners ...

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be...

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so th...

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead...

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

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

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new ent...

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

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you lov...

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

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have some...

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

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

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn'...

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be di...

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it.

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

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a ...

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

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed ...

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

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

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most...

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering ...

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.

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

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the...

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams...

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it ...

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the cont...

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the...

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

...This is a place of learning where very few learn anything of value. That you, who have courage an...

Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of...

A priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, a...

Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a ...

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, an...

I told her that I can't be doing with the Wonder part of these trips, but she said it should be the ...

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct beca...

What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!

Prepared for the worst,but still praying for the best

It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly ...

Information, long of reach, devastating, and as a side benefit, a substance with no serious legal re...

Memory, instead of being a duplicate, always present before one's eyes, of the various events of one...

We must endure, Alyosha." That was the only thing she could say in response to my accounts of the ug...

A mere redrawing of borders, a change in governments, those things can never faze a Jewess with a go...

Only learning oneself better, and understanding one’s place in the world, made the touch of another ...

Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's...

That's the big mistake a lot of people make when they wonder how soldiers can put their lives on the...

The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The ...

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of...

I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare -- or, if not, it's some...

...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on m...

In any honest analysis, change is the basis of fear, the idea of something new, of some paradigm tha...

In any honest analysis, change is the basis of fear, the idea of something new, of some paradigm tha...