Quotes About Adaptation

Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.

Marketing is not an event, but a process It has a beginning, a middle, but never an end, for it is a process. You improve it, perfect it, change it, even pause it. But you never stop it completely.

Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'

This summer is going to be a different summer for a lot of people. Everyone is going to take care of their own business and everyone is going to do what's best for them, including me.

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.

Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.

If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.

Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community.

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die.

Business as usual doesn't work, that we're in a time where we have to rethink a lot of the basic ground rules and assumptions of our civilizations.

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.

Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.

Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.

We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.

The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.

As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.