There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
What valuable company is nobody building?
All that is solid melts into air. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.
The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary, to begin, all over again, something else.
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
Life in Somalia before the civil war was beautiful. When the war happened, I was 8 years old and at that stage of understanding the world in a different way.
The perennial gale of creative destruction
I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'
To innovate is not to reform.
The old system collapsed before a new one could be created.
If you don't cannibalize yourself, someone else will.
We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.
As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief; I want to challenge those who aim to block change, stop development and restrict success. I want to challenge the caution that strangles risk-takers and go-getters.
You have to keep on disrupting. If you let up the pressure, then al-Qaeda senior leadership will come back.
I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.
When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
We see Google experimenting in so many places outside of its core search and advertising business, whether that's bringing broadband Internet to the world or funding an entirely separate company to pursue solutions to disease and mortality. Amazon's one of the few other companies that thinks as big as Google does.
Innovation means change.
Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.
As many have noted, Donald Trump's presidency is an insurgency. Mr. Trump himself is the quintessential insurgent, doing battle with a disingenuous and entrenched establishment.
We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.
Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1.
People in the high-tech sector are living with change every hour. They can get up in the morning and find themselves behind already.
I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.
