Jay Samit

"Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor, because in a most Zenlike fashion, the content is controlled by all and none at the sme time."

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves."

"A free and open Internet is a despot's worst enemy."

"Your future -our world's future- is far more malleable and controllable than most people realize."

"No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can't make a difference."

"No leader got there by following another's path. Better to walk alone than follow a crowd going in the wrong direction."

"Are you truly living life or just paying bills until you die?"

"Our world is fundamentally different from the one we were taught about in school."

"Attitude is something each one of us can learn to enhance and control."

"School was designed to get you to fall in line and get a job in someone else’s company."

"Most of your life you have been told to get the safe and steady job by people who had given up on their dreams years before you came along."

"No democracy can survive without a thriving middle class and entrepreneurs are our job creators."

"Wealth that can last generations can now be attained in the shortest time ever in history."

"There are two reasons most people don’t attain wealth: they didn’t think they were smart enough to get rich and they were never taught how to create wealth."

"Self-perception is more important than any other factor in predicting success."

"Unfortunately, growing up with a zero-sum perspective is like a horse wearing blinders – it limits the field of view for opportunity."

"You will win every race as long as you are the only runner on the track."

"The first truth you must accept for Future Proofing You is that nothing can be achieved without a growth mindset."

"Too many people’s careers are ruined by praise instead of propelled by criticism."

"The antidote for self-pity and negative thinking is gratitude."

"Obstacles, not products, are the source of creating wealth."

"Be thankful you have problems because they are the key to your salvation."

"Most people are more afraid of the unknown than death."

"Fear kills more dreams than failure ever will."

"The third of the twelve truths in this book is that you must accept that fear is good."

"You cannot live forever, but what you create and build in your lifetime can."

"Immortality is making a difference with the time we have."

"If your job isn’t fulfilling, why are you so afraid of losing it?"

"Instead of fearing what could go wrong. Fear what happens if you never try."

"The best time to launch your new company was a year ago; the second-best time is now."

"You have the power to change the world and your only fear should be wasting the opportunity while you have the time to wield it."

"Failure is a frequent stop on the road to success."

"Spending all your money before you have a business model, makes about as much sense as drinking all your water before you hike across a desert so that you won’t have to carry the canteen."

"Too many people believe that they have to wait until they are wealthy to follow their passion, when in fact, it will be their passion that will make them wealthy."

"Having a purpose puts you in control of your destiny."

"Next time you get lost in thought, pay attention to where you went for therein lies your inner passion."

"A stable middle class is the backbone of a free society and entrepreneurs are the true job creators that power our world."

"Make sure your goals are your goals."

"No one ever built a billion-dollar company without employees, investors, business partners, and customers."

"Company mentoring programs are also a key tool in promoting diversity at the workplace."

"Everything is a Tech Startup. Yes, Everything!"

"Each minute, of every day, people watch 4.7 million YouTube videos, send 19 million texts, scroll through 700,000 Instagram pictures, share 2.5 million Snaps, query Google 4.1 million times, send 59 million messages and send 190 million emails."

"If you are spending most of your time and money in the digital world today, why not build your career and business there?"

"Steve Jobs wasn’t an engineer and he built a trillion-dollar company without ever learning to code."

"If the big multinational corporations are making the bricks, you can make millions supplying the mortar that holds their market together."

"Spatial reality will be as vital to the success of a two-person startup as it is to the largest multinational conglomerate."

"The physical and the virtual will seamlessly meld before our very eyes creating an augmented life called spatial reality."

"The spatial web holds so much promise for improving our lives that those companies failing to invest and embrace the future will go the way of Kodak, Radio Shack, and Blockbuster."

"The true potential of an augmented life is revealed when it provides us with the information we need, at exactly the right time and place."

"Working hard doesn’t make you rich, working smart does."