Disruptor Quotes

I look at myself as a game-changer, and I try to make that a facet of my game.

I'm a phenomenal fan of Elon Musk. I think he's the greatest. He's a disrupter, and I think he is a great marketer. And I love him.

My goal isn't to be one of the best; it's to change the game, to change the way things work.

You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.

See, I'm a subverter at heart.

When I came into the mobile phone business, I was really the upstart who pretty much took the business, not quite by storm, but really made an impact on it quite early on. But it was from a position, really, of feeling that I was a last mover.

I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd have liked to meet them. I admire people who aren't circumscribed by circumstance.

Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary... That has always been a potent combination.

I'm just a troublemaker.

I'm a provocateur.

To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.

Every show needs a jerk. I guess I'm that guy.

I was a troublemaker.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

Trump represents the ultimate anti-status-quo suckerpunch.

Booksellers initially thought of Amazon as their best friend. They were coming in, and they were challenging Barnes and Noble, and Borders, which were the big, dominant corporations of the day, and that they would disrupt them and make them less powerful, but they could never envision that Amazon would overtake them all.

Our goal was never to create a better taxi.

I’m not a humanitarian. I’m a hell raiser!

It is not the owner of stage-coaches who builds railways.

An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.

LinkedIn is the Netscape of its era.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

Disruption is in my genes. My father owned one of the first discount toy stores, Duane's Toyland, in Albany and Schenectady, near where I grew up. Discount was always a huge disruptor - it disrupted Sears Roebuck.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

I believe that if you don't disrupt yourself, you will be disrupted by someone else.