entrepreneurial

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

Our world's future is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

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.

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solutions.

You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time.

It is not incumbent on the world to conform to your vision of change. It is up to you to explain the future in terms that those living in the past and present can follow.

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs.