Quotes About Adaptation

I do what works best for me, but it might not work for somebody else.

Relationships are not tailor-made and people are flawed. You have to work around that and love the other person anyway. Our flaws are what make us unique.

I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the play, I didn't complete the job.

Occasionally [Donald Trump] says things that are too strong and upsets people, and I think he'll work to do better on that.

I'm in a position to work on good things. I've worked on shitty projects, in the past. But, it is what it is. I'm just taking it as it comes.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

The more that I work with people that I don't know, the more I invite somebody in who's potentially going to really hate being there.

We [the United States] are not every other country. And models that work elsewhere may not have the same impact here.

After 39 years of business, I'm still learning. I go through this every year -identifying new strategies that are extremely important.

They come with a lot of strategies in international cricket. You face bowlers with a lot more pace.

The way we look at manufacturing is this: the U.S.'s strategy should be to skate where the puck is going, not where it is.

Leadership changes, and evolving marketplace conditions can significantly impact business strategy.

I will never apologize for changing the approach or strategy when the facts change.

In my private sector career, two of my favorite sayings were, 'Strategy is easy and execution is really hard,' and that we should 'run at criticism.'

It's important to have a really clear strategy so when you are in business, you only have to make micro-strategy changes.

So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving.

Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented.

We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

I think I've changed my business strategy every year since 2003. You have to be watching the horizon constantly. The rug has been pulled out from under our feet so many times.

When we raised the first Foundry Group fund in 2007, we took over 100 first meetings. We told our story several hundred times. As part of it was a slide called 'Strategy.' I still repeat the elements of that slide regularly, a decade later, as our core strategy has not changed.

By 2002, I realized that what was classically called a rollup strategy was not generally effective, at least not for me.

The way deals are done, every idea is looked at 50 different ways. Now, the market continues to change all the time. And we are always looking at everything in evaluating how it fits with our strategy.