78 Quotes & Sayings By Jay Samit

Jay Samit, M.D. is the founder and director of the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Institute based in Santa Rosa, California. He has taught EFT to thousands of people, including many patients who were suffering from chronic pain, fear, anxiety and stress-related disorders. Samit is considered one of the world's leading experts on EFT and has received international attention for his work with pain reduction and stress control, especially in the medical community Read more

He was a consultant on the film The Secret, which deals with the scientific basis for positive thinking and was featured prominently in its promotion.

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In life, you get what you believe you deserve. Jay Samit
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No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference. Jay Samit
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At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic. Jay Samit
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The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact. Jay Samit
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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
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Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure Jay Samit
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To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture. Jay Samit
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No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another. Jay Samit
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You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up. Jay Samit
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Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products. Jay Samit
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Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise. Jay Samit
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A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy. Jay Samit
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The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation. Jay Samit
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Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast. Jay Samit
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Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize. Jay Samit
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The customer is always right...even when they're wrong. Jay Samit
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Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it. Jay Samit
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The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state. Jay Samit
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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
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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
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The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation. Jay Samit
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Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment. Jay Samit
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Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be killed, go with it. Jay Samit
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Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely. Jay Samit
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An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets. Jay Samit
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Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired. Jay Samit
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The most important tool you have on a resume is language. Jay Samit
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Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it. Jay Samit
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Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity. Jay Samit
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The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse. Jay Samit
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If life, you get what you believe you deserve. Jay Samit
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A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage. Jay Samit
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You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at. Jay Samit
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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
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You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time. Jay Samit
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If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there? Jay Samit
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Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it. Jay Samit
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Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin. Jay Samit
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Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted. Jay Samit
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Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot. Jay Samit
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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
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A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes. Jay Samit
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A dream with a deadline is a goal. Jay Samit
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A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state. Jay Samit
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Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value. Jay Samit
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The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do. Jay Samit
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If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen. Jay Samit
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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
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CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs. Jay Samit
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There are two types of people in this world: those whose look for opportunity and those who make it happen. Jay Samit
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The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground. Jay Samit
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You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams. Jay Samit
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All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solutions. Jay Samit
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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. Jay Samit
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There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs. Jay Samit
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The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better. Jay Samit
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Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love? Jay Samit
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Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you. Jay Samit
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All Disruption starts with introspection. Jay Samit
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Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants. Jay Samit
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Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel. Jay Samit
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Data may disappoint, but it never lies. Jay Samit
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Networking is all about connecting with people. But then again, isn't that what life is about? The more time you can find to get out of the office and build true friendships, the farther your startup will go. Entrepreneurs need to remember to spend as much time working on their business as they do in their business. Jay Samit
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To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection. Jay Samit
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YouTube began as a failed video-dating site. Twitter was a failed music service. In each case, the founders continued to try new concepts when their big ideas failed. They often worked around the clock to try to overcome their failure before all their capital was spent. Speed to fail gives a startup more runway to pivot and ultimately succeed. Jay Samit
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There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out. Jay Samit
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The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation. Jay Samit
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Every product you have ever loved was a compromise from the ideal vision of its creators to the realities of shipping on time, on budget, and on price point. Anyone who has ever manufactured a physical product that had to be on the shelves for Christmas shopping knows how painful these choices can be. Jay Samit
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There is no better feeling than doing well while you are doing good. If you really want to meet the nicest, most caring people in your field, get involved with charity work. The thankless hours that go into planning charity dinners, running a carnival, and gathering donations for silent auctions are noticed and appreciated. Jay Samit
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Creating something that builds lasting value and changes the lives of millions of people requires forging a team that will work hard to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, stand up to the pressures of fame and fortune, and stay true to the original vision long after others stop believing. Jay Samit
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The strength of brand loyalty begins with how your product makes people feel. Jay Samit
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I never understood why women wanted equality in the workplace when in fact, that would be selling them short. Jay Samit
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New ideas for innovation grow out of the minds of each new generation. Having an institution of higher learning that can help young people put those ideas into action is critical. Jay Samit
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In order to protect against being disrupted, startups also need to recruit employees that are committed to life-long learning. The skills that made your team members valuable may not be the skills needed to take your company to the next level or to compete in emerging markets. Jay Samit
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Every new startup business creates new opportunities. It doesn't matter whether you have a new app for college students or a home medical device for senior citizens there are other multibillion noncompetitive corporations that are spending millions of dollars trying to market their goods and services to your same audience. Jay Samit
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Design is how you make your first impression with your consumers. Make sure it is a lasting one. Jay Samit
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Whether by design or circumstance, every startup will eventually get disrupted. Jay Samit