Top 222 Disruption Quotes & Sayings

Change is inevitable, and the disruption it causes often brings both inconvenience and opportunity.

In tech communities, we consider disruption the way to lead to innovation.

Education is inoculation against disruption.

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption.

Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold.

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

Disruption never helps your cause. ... It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion.

Anything that is public display that will cause disruption to the beliefs of society of course would have to be curtailed.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

This is the age of disruption.

As we all know, sexism in the workplace is a serious issue. It's something that needs active disruption and change.

Anytime there's a disruption in the supply chain, any time people cut back on spending, there will be a recession.

As you step out of college, you will be spending the rest of your life in a world of accelerated disruption.

I think of protest as confrontation and disruption, as the end of silence.

The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.

When the Dodgers left, it was not only a loss of a team, it was the disruption of a social pattern. A total destruction of a culture.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

Homesharing is about dialogue, not disruption.

There is a need to accept a limited disruption of civil liberties in order to penetrate terror.

By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption.

Prosperity in human society is misunderstood. The difference between a rich and poor society is the number of problems that society solves for its citizens. That means technological innovation is the source of all prosperity, but with every tech innovation, you also get disruption - ultimately, social and civic disruption.

To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection.

I wrote my first piece about the disruption of the Harvard Business School in 1999. Because you could see this coming. I haven't yet done the one about the disruption of the Stanford Business School.

Trust me, you can't change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It's impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.

If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work. Progress is disruption and change.

The big opportunity - and where the most disruption is - is in local media.

In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.

We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.

I immediately target sadness and conflict and disruption in life.

Disruption on the first day always looks like a toy.

The key is to embrace disruption and change early. Don't react to it decades later. You can't fight innovation.

VCs invest in innovation and disruption, but how often do they innovate themselves?

The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project.

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

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

Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption.

In an era of endless innovation and constant disruption, what is any company really worth? How does a startup determine its valuation?

Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike.

A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.

Instead of focusing the traditional planning cycles where companies benchmark their businesses against existing competition, teams need to be developed to foster internal change and disruption. Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

Most companies think of disruption as a threat. But disruptive innovations have tremendous growth potential. If incumbent companies can learn how to harness the forces of disruption, they too can improve their ability to create new-growth businesses.

Disruption starts with committing to excellence and taking a stand for your customer.

I expressed myself through hyperactivity and disruption. I wanted to play rather than study.

Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.

You embrace disruption. I think it's a good thing.

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

Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.

Almost every disruption starts at the perceived fringes of today's market.

School disruption comes from those children who have given up hope.

Amid all the job losses of the Great Recession, there is one category of worker that the economic disruption has been good for: nonhumans.

Democracy is disruptive. Around the world, peaceful protesters are being demonised for this, but there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. Protesters ideally should read Gandhi and King and dedicate themselves to disciplined, long-term, non-violent disruption of business as usual - especially disruption of traffic.

Not all change and disruption succeeds, to be sure.

Diversity, I think, has become a real business imperative at the very top with CEOs who are facing massive disruption.

When we’re alone together, I’m the destination. When I’m here in her life at school, I’m the disruption.

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.