Jay Samit famous quotes

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

#Giving Up #Giving #Victory

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

#Self #Disruption #Scalpels

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

#Benefits #Inevitability

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

#Successful #People #Twenties

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.
-- Jay Samit

#Opportunity #People #Risk

A dream with a deadline is a goal.
-- Jay Samit

#Dream #Goal #Deadline

Security doesn't rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.
-- Jay Samit

#Ambition #Illusion #Security

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.
-- Jay Samit

#War #Lying #Fighting

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

#Odds #Defeat #Accepting

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

#Opportunity #Journey #Important

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

#Years #Want

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?
-- Jay Samit

#Jobs #Hate #Week

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

#Riches #Found #Breakthrough

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

#Determination #Differences #Making A Difference

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

#Important #Tools #Language

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

#Entrepreneur #Excuse #Results

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

#Dream #Choices #Helping

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

#Successful #Innovation #Creation

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

#Journey #Legs #Next

All Disruption starts with introspection.
-- Jay Samit

#Disruption #Introspection

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.
-- Jay Samit

#Flow #Causes #Disruption

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

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure
-- Jay Samit

#Lessons #Teach

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.
-- Jay Samit

#Energy #Resources #Valuable

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

#Crowds #Technological #Remains

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

#Heart #Marketing #Demand

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

#Ideas #Bigs

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

#Our World #People #World

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

#Enemy #Internet #Worst

Disruptors don't have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.
-- Jay Samit

#Discovery #Use #Something New

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

#Entrepreneur #Waiting #Problem

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

#Opportunity #Two #People

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.
-- Jay Samit

#Years #Careers #People

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

#Being The Best

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

#Careers #Baggage

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.
-- Jay Samit

#Past #Vision #World

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

#Average #Ideas #Genius

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

#Regret #Trying #Succeed

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

#Joy #Way #Enjoyment

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

#Ambition #Careers #Driven

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

#Fashion #Distribution #Zen Like

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

#Opportunity #Management #Threat

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.
-- Jay Samit

#Believe #Deserve

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

#Luxury #Employment #Lifelong Learning