Quotes About Adaptability

You have to laugh at yourself because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic.

bisogna essere preparati a tutto, anche alla felicità.

From building websites, apps and even wearables, Builder.ai can create almost anything. - Engineer.ai CEO

I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind, Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.

I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.

Anche per chi abbia già conseguito una compiuta conoscenza, la cosa più importante è proprio l'essere in grado di servirsi delle sue cognizioni con prontezza.

The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.

Supple design has a profound effect on the ability of software to cope with change and complexity.

We'd like to keep things flexible;

no expectations, no disappointments!

Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.

Our educational system is not preparing people for the 21st Century. Failure is an essential part of entrepreneurship. If you work hard, you can get an 'A' pretty much guaranteed, but in entrepreneurship, that's not how it works.

Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn't mean it cannot be managed.

Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.

when you have only one test, you don't have entrepreneurs, you have politicians, because you have to sell.

We do everything wrong: instead of spending years perfecting our technology, we build a minimum viable product, an early product that is terrible, full of bugs and crash-your-computer-yes-really stability problems. Then we ship it to customers way before it's ready.

A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty

Entrepreneurs are everywhere. You don't have to work in a garage to be in a startup. The concept of entrepreneurship includes anyone who works within my definition of a startup: a human institution designed to create new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty. That means entrepreneurs are everywhere and the Lean Startup approach can work in any size company, even a very large enterprise, in any sector or industry.

Most important, a disciplined team can experiment with its own working style and draw meaningful conclusions.

Successful entrepreneurs do not give up at the first sign of trouble, nor do they persevere the plane right into the ground. Instead, they possess a unique combination of perseverance and flexibility. The

A startup is an institution, not just a product, and so it requires a new kind of management specifically geared to its context of extreme uncertainty.

Compared to a lot of startups, the Grockit team had a huge advantage: they were tremendously disciplined. A disciplined team may apply the wrong methodology but can shift gears quickly once it discovers its error. Most important, a disciplined team can experiment with its own working style and draw meaningful conclusions.

Entrepreneurship is a kind of management. No, you didn't read that wrong.