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. |
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.
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.