100 Disruption Quotes That Reflect Bold Business Moves

Disruption is where opportunity meets boldness.

It’s about challenging the status quo and creating something entirely new.

These quotes highlight the thinking behind some of the most game-changing ideas and movements in business.

Whether you’re trying to shake up an industry or just looking for a spark of originality, these words offer the courage to think differently.

Top Disruption Quotes

Disrupt or be disrupted. ~ Anonymous

The electric light did not come from the continuous improvement of candles. ~ Oren Harari

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative. ~ Woody Allen

The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea. ~ Peter Diamandis

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ~ Alan Kay

Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. ~ Dr. Albert Szent-Györgyi

The stone age didn’t end because they ran out of stones. ~ Unknown

The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed. ~ William Gibson

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. ~ Nolan Bushnell

The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow. ~ Ingvar Kamprad

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. ~ Richard Branson

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. ~ Nolan Bushnell

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world. ~ Simon Sinek

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Innovation is taking two things that exist and putting them together in a new way. ~ Tom Freston

There’s a way to do it better—find it. ~ Thomas Edison

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time. ~ Bill Gates

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity—not a threat. ~ Steve Jobs

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast. ~ Peter Drucker

Market Disruption Quotes

Disruptive innovation is not a breakthrough innovation that makes good products a lot better; it transforms a product that historically was so expensive and complicated that only a few people with a lot of money and a lot of skill had access to it. ~ Clayton Christensen

The most disruptive thing you can do is solve a problem that people didn’t realize they had. ~ Anonymous

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. ~ Mark Zuckerberg

In a world that’s changing so quickly, the biggest risk you can take is not taking any risk. ~ Peter Thiel

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. ~ John Maynard Keynes

You can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level. ~ Albert Einstein

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. ~ Albert Einstein

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic. ~ Peter Drucker

Innovation is change that unlocks new value. ~ Jamie Notter

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. ~ Linus Pauling

Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Albert Einstein

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination. ~ Albert Einstein

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. ~ Henry Ford

Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers. ~ Seth Godin

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. ~ Bill Gates

The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. ~ Peter Drucker

People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it. ~ Simon Sinek

The best marketing strategy ever: CARE. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk

Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you make, but about the stories you tell. ~ Seth Godin

Technological Disruption Quotes

Technology is best when it brings people together. ~ Matt Mullenweg

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. ~ Albert Einstein

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life. ~ Bill Gates

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them. ~ Steve Jobs

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. ~ Bill Gates

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. ~ Carl Sagan

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. ~ Sydney J. Harris

Technology is a word that describes something that doesn’t work yet. ~ Douglas Adams

The human spirit must prevail over technology. ~ Albert Einstein

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. ~ Bill Gates

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication. ~ Libby Larsen

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. ~ Christian Lous Lange

Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born. ~ Alan Kay

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. ~ John Lasseter

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. ~ Max Frisch

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. ~ Freeman Dyson

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. ~ Bill Gates

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories. ~ Laurie Anderson

Industry Transformation Quotes

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. ~ John F. Kennedy

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ~ Charles Darwin

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~ Leo Tolstoy

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ~ Albert Einstein

Change before you have to. ~ Jack Welch

If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less. ~ General Eric Shinseki

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. ~ Alan Watts

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. ~ John C. Maxwell

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished. ~ Benjamin Franklin

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ~ Socrates

Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up. ~ James Belasco and Ralph Stayer

People don’t resist change. They resist being changed. ~ Peter Senge

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic. ~ Peter Drucker

Change is the only constant in life. One’s ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Your success in life isn’t based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition, customers, and business. ~ Mark Sanborn

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. ~ Henry Ford

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. ~ Kakuzo Okakura

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. ~ Charles Kettering

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ~ George Bernard Shaw

When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. ~ Chinese Proverb

Disruptive Leadership Quotes

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. ~ Warren Bennis

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. ~ Peter Drucker

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. ~ John C. Maxwell

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. ~ Ralph Nader

Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about taking care of those in your charge. ~ Simon Sinek

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be. ~ Rosalynn Carter

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. ~ Ronald Reagan

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. ~ Arnold H. Glasow

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. ~ John F. Kennedy

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. ~ Jim Rohn

Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. ~ Bill Bradley

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. ~ Lao Tzu

The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority. ~ Kenneth H. Blanchard

Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. ~ Peter Drucker

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. ~ John Maxwell

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. ~ Douglas MacArthur

Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. ~ John C. Maxwell

The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been. ~ Henry Kissinger

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. ~ Seth Godin