A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.
All businesses – no matter if they make dog food or software – don’t sell products, they sell solutions.
A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.
Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.
Disruption isn’t about what happens to you, it’s about how you respond to what happens to you.
A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state.
You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.
To stay relevant, you must keep your career in permanent beta. That means committing to a lifetime of learning and professional growth, a lifetime of strategic.
Most discoveries come from the simple act of identifying life’s problems.
If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.
Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later. Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.8.
Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.
Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.
Data may disappoint, but it never lies.
Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the right disruptor to come along and create a business.
Today’s entrepreneur is creating opportunities for connections around the content without ever being tied to the cost of creating that content.
The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.
The possibilities of migrating from an economy based on owning to one based on sharing are limitless.
Are you truly living life or just paying bills until you die?
Our world is fundamentally different from the one we were taught about in school.
Attitude is something each one of us can learn to enhance and control.