disruption quotes

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

And you know, I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.

It’s empowering to know I am doing something, I am taking a stand, I am disrupting.

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.

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

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it’s not going to happen. I’m fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.

I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.