Disruptive Innovation Quotes

Breakdowns create breakthroughs.

Breakthroughs create more breakthroughs.

More breakthroughs create friction because idiots be jealous or don't get it or protect their little corner and act out of spite.

So you breakdown for another breakthrough.

If you're about to break, go for broke.

If you're not breaking, you're not really living. ~ Richie Norton

Companies preach creativity, hire for conformity and call consultants when they fail who tell them to be more creative. ~ Richie Norton

The principles of disruptive innovation are indeed intended to be guidelines to assist managers both in introducing disruptive innovations as well as identifying disruptive developments in their market. ~ Clayton Christensen

A $10,000 investment in Dell at its 1988 initial public offering would have yielded a fortune of ~$6 million at the stock's peak. ~ Heather Simmons

Normal is where innovation goes to die. ~ Richie Norton

Telephone did not come into existence from the persistent improvement of the postcard. ~ Amit Kalantri

There can be no question that the loss of TV manufacture in the United States was a disruption, but the loss had not been brought about by a disruptive technology or disruptive innovation. The key factor in disruption was the Asian approach to innovation, based primarily on process improvement and optimal design. ~ Haydn Shaughnessy

Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives. ~ Heather Simmons

Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror. ~ Jill Lepore

We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are seemingly counterintuitive. If companies don't have that common language, it is hard for them to come to consensus on a counterintuitive course of action. ~ Clayton Christensen

While someday the computerization of medicine will surely be that long-awaited "disruptive innovation," today it's often just plain disruptive: of the doctor-patient relationship, of clinicians' professional interactions and work flow, and of the way we measure and try to improve things. I ~ Robert Wachter

Nobody thought the direct business model would work. But work it did, and spectacularly. Until it didn't. And therein lies the tale. ~ Heather Simmons

Creativity is the new currency, so, are you credited with new thoughts or overdrawn in old thinking? ~ Onyi Anyado

Ideas become inventions become innovations. ~ Richie Norton

All canonical writing possesses the quality of making you feel strangeness at home. ~ Harold Bloom

Truth be told, nobody thought Dell's direct business model would work, at least back in the early 90s. As Bill Sharpe, head of the advertising agency that held the Dell Canada account from 1996 to 2006, told me, "I had a business partner in California who said, we have a client, Dell. It sells computers over the phone, and ships them to you. I said, 'There's no way, who's gonna buy a computer over the phone? They're complicated. ~ Heather Simmons

If Da Vinci had to tweet 5 times a day,
we'd still be riding bicycles. ~ Natasha Tsakos

There are three particularly important issues involved in delivering customer value: focusing on innovation rather than efficiency and optimization, concentrating on execution, and lean thinking. ~ Jim Highsmith

All innovation is about letting go, saying goodbye to things to create space for the new. ~ Geoff Mulgan

Innovation and creativity are the basic ingredients of success. ~ Kevin G Coleman

Four Ingredients Plus Three Generations The recipe for an institution, then, is four ingredients plus three generations: artifacts, arenas, rules and roles that are passed on to the founding generation's children's children. Fail to follow this recipe by neglecting the transmission over generations and you are likely to leave little of cultural significance behind - at best, a few mysterious artifacts and hazy, nostalgic memories. Likewise, fail to follow this recipe by neglecting one of the four essential ingredients, and enduring impact is equally unlikely, because only the fourfold combination of artifacts, arenas, rules and roles is strong enough to sustain a cultural innovation through time. ~ Andy Crouch

The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island! ~ Donald L. Carcieri

Because there was no pre-existing patrician elite, those successful in the new book industry could write very swiftly to the top of the social hierarchy. ~ Andrew Pettegree

The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now. ~ Vinton Cerf

Customers don't know what they want until we've shown them. ~ Walter Isaacson

Appreciation and recognition are qualities that most leaders forget, but desperately need, to build a positive, passionate and engaged workplace. ~ Tony Dovale

There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation, which is true. But you also have to remember that much of that innovation is constrained within the realities of the foreign policy. ~ Evgeny Morozov

The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward. ~ Rebecca MacKinnon

Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution. ~ Reid Hoffman

One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet ... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation. ~ Tim Berners-Lee

The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It's contextual. ~ Pearl Zhu

Managing innovation better may be the only way out of the abyss called commodity hell. ~ Jeffrey R. Immelt

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic. ~ Ferran Adria

The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief in innovation. ~ John A. Hobson

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. ~ Theodore Levitt

[L]ike people, ideas have social lives. They're one way when they're by themselves, and another when they're surrounded by their peers. Crammed together, they grow more uncertain, more interesting, more surprising; they come out of themselves and grow more appealing, and funnier. You wouldn't want all of intellectual life to be that social--we couldn't make progress that way. But there's a special atmosphere that develops whenever truly different ideas congregate, and, on the whole, it's too rare. ~ Joshua Rothman

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

Instead of trying to come up with a vision and make innovation happen themselves, a leader of innovation creates a place - a context, an environment - where people are willing and able to do the hard work that innovative problem solving requires. ~ Linda A. Hill

When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations. ~ John Henry Holland

It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them. ~ Vandana Shiva

The best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize the company ~ Steve Jobs

Innovation often starts with the ordinary. They simply took what was "normal", and added a twist. They added an innovation. The innovation solved a key problem of the "normal" use case that we all already understood. ~ Dave Morin

When you look at the actual data on technological innovation, one thing you see is that what I call the 'low-hanging fruit' has been exhausted. So radio, flush toilets, electricity, and automobiles - a lot of very basic inventions - have spread to almost all households. ~ Tyler Cowen

All work and no play doesn't just make Jill and Jack dull, it kills the potential of discovery, mastery, and openness to change and flexibility and it hinders innovation and invention. ~ Joline Godfrey

[Concerning postmodernism:] The aim of this experimental history is to disturb the ontological security of modern identity and hence to provoke the possibility of otherness through exposition of the cultural difference concealed by, and within, the order of modern rationalism. ~ Nicholas Gane

Without curiosity, there will never be any innovation. ~ Steve Stoute

Ignore the real world
"That would never work in the real world." You hear it all the time when you tell people about a fresh idea.
This real world sounds like an awfully depressing place to live. It's a place where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts always
lose. The only things that win are what people already know and do, even if those things are flawed and inefficient.
Scratch the surface and you'll find these "real world" inhabitants are filled with pessimism and despair. They expect fresh concepts to fail. They
assume society isn't ready for or capable of change.
Even worse, they want to drag others down into their tomb. If you're hopeful and ambitious, they'll try to convince you your ideas are impossible.
They'll say you're wasting your time. ~ David Heinemeier Hansson

Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy. ~ Gary Hamel

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

Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes. ~ Reince Priebus

If humans can live for 100 years, why do companies die so young. ~ Sukant Ratnakar

All we can thus far say about the duration of the units of [the business cycle] and each of [its] two phases is that it will depend on the nature of the particular innovations that carry a cycle, ... and the financial conditions and habits prevailing in the business community in each case. ~ Joseph A. Schumpeter

People who are driven by love will overcome hardships and hurdles in ways that people who are only driven by profit never can. ~ Simon S. Tam