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I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.Elmore Leonard
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Word of the day- kakistocracy. From the Greek meaning government by the worst persons, least qualified or most unprincipled.Peggy Noonan
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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 failureJay 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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Minimalism is a way of living at the maximum of your potential.Anastasiya Kotelnikova