Make Change – 12 Inspiring Quotes About Disruption and Winning in Business
“It’s not how many ideas you have. It’s how many you make happen.” (Accenture ad) We couldn’t agree more, and we found twelve inspiring quotes about disruption for the workplace to help inspire continued pursuit of creativity, innovation and industry disruption that can help you grow your business.
12 Quotes About Disruption: Sometimes the Key to Winning in Business is Changing the Game
Starting and growing a business rarely occurs without risk and trying something new. Doing business outside of the way competitors do business and exceeding the expectations of your customers requires a willingness to challenge – and jettison – the status quo in favor of something better, even when that something better is as yet undefined. For all those who have set out to disrupt the status quo and set a new standard for greatness, we found twelve great quotes about disruption, creativity, innovation and changing the game to encourage you along the way.
“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”
A.A. Milne, British writer
“If you’re trying to disrupt the status quo and beat bigger competitors, you’re not going to do it by playing their game.”
Dharmesh Shah, OnStartups.com
“Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.”
William Pollard, English Clergyman
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
Steve Jobs, US Businessman and Innovation Icon
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
Alan Kay, American Computer Scientist
“Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.”
Gary Hamel, US Businessman
“Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.”
Thomas Dewar, Scottish Businessman
“If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.”
Albert Einstein, German-born Theoretical Physicist and Mathematician
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President
“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.”
Theodore Levitt, American Economist and Harvard Business School Professor
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there will be no hope for it.”
Albert Einstein
“Status quo, you know, is Latin for, ‘The mess we’re in.’”
Ronald Reagan, 40th US President
