Quotes About Adaptability

Anything can be a weapon, if the man or woman who holds it has the nerve and will to make it so.

Great captains earned their reputation not just for laying brilliant plans, but for still being able to find victory after those plans began to fall apart.

Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.

The spine that refused to bend at all was often the most malleable once it gave way.

Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.

Blessed are the flexible, for they will not be bent out of shape.

How you make people more efficient and productive, more effective, more responsive, more open-minded, better at their jobs, is little affected by the placement of their organization on the chart. There is one exception to this general proposition: getting rid of boxes on the chart—reducing layering—is almost always a good thing.

John was worried Sylvia would not be up to the discomfort of this and planned to have her fly to Billings, Montana, but Sylvia and I both talked him out of it. I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable and call that the cause. But if the mood is right, then physical discomfort doesn't mean much. And when thinking about Sylvia's moods and feelings, I couldn't see her complaining.

It's this understanding of Quality as revealed by stuckness which so often makes self-taught mechanics so superior to institute-trained men who have learned how to handle everything except a new situation.

What distinguishes the successful entrepreneur and promoter from other people is precisely the fact that he does not let himself be guided by what was and is, but arranges his affairs on the ground of his opinion about the future. He sees the past and the present as other people do; but he judges the future in a different way

In today's fast-changing world, it's not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old. It is how fast you learn.

Being able to know when to make quick decisions is an important skill.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. –F. Scott Fitzgerald

There are two things that make today the greatest entrepreneurial age: 1. We have access to teachers like never before. 2. You can start a business from home while still working at your job.

In today's fast-changing world, it's not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old. It is how fast you learn. That skill is priceless.

Smart investors don't time the markets. If they miss a wave, they search for the next one and get themselves in position.

Entrepreneurs are different, and one of those differences is their ability to operate sanely and intelligently without money.

People are trainable. They can be trained to be either employees or entrepreneurs.

If you look at any successful person, at the start they were not balanced. Balanced people go nowhere.

Learning skills outside what you think of as your profession will benefit you.

Another side note: In today's fast-changing world, it's not so much what you know anymore that counts, because often what you know is old. It is how fast you learn. That skill is priceless.

Today most of us know that job security is a thing of the past

For the World War II generation, it was considered bad to skip from company to company. Today, it is considered smart. It enables you to learn more and will pay dividends in the long runs. The main management skills needed for success are: 1) Management of cash flow, 2) Management of systems, and 3) Management of people. And the most important specialized skills are sales and marketing. Communication skills such as writing, speaking, and negotiating are crucial to a life of success.

If people are prepared to be flexible, keep an open mind and learn, they will grow richer and richer despite tough changes.