BiographyType: 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. |
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.
The customer is always right...even when they're wrong.
Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.
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.