Best 55 quotes of Jay Samit on MyQuotes

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

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

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

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

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

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

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

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

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.

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

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

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

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

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

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

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

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

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

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

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

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

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.