Jay Samit Quotes

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

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

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

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

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

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

New ideas for innovation grow out of the minds of each new generation. Having an institution of high...

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

There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn d...

The strength of brand loyalty begins with how your product makes people feel.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

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

There is no better feeling than doing well while you are doing good. If you really want to meet the ...

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so th...

I never understood why women wanted equality in the workplace when in fact, that would be selling th...

Networking is all about connecting with people. But then again, isn't that what life is about? The m...

In order to protect against being disrupted, startups also need to recruit employees that are commit...

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

Creating something that builds lasting value and changes the lives of millions of people requires fo...

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competi...

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead...

YouTube began as a failed video-dating site. Twitter was a failed music service. In each case, the f...

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

Design is how you make your first impression with your consumers. Make sure it is a lasting one.

The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitud...

Every new startup business creates new opportunities. It doesn't matter whether you have a new app f...

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

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

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

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

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you lov...

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

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

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.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn'...

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be di...

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

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

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

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

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

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most...

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

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

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

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

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

Every product you have ever loved was a compromise from the ideal vision of its creators to the real...

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

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

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

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 cont...

Billions of dollars worth of research knowledge lie dormant at American universities waiting for the...

Whether by design or circumstance, every startup will eventually get disrupted.

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