Jay Samit Quotes

Biography

Type: Innovator

Born: January 31, 1961

Died:

Jay Alan Samit is a dynamic entrepreneur and intrepreneur who is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on disruption and innovation. He launches billion dollar businesses, transforms entire industries, revamps government institutions, and for over three decades continues to be at the forefront of global trends.

Jay Samit Quotes

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

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

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

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

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

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

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

All Disruption starts with introspection.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

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

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

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