Quotes About Adaptation

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.

Social Media are tools, Real Time is a mindset.

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

The enemy of stability can be complacency

If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

Radio was supposed to die in 1945, when TV came along. It turns out that radio grew and grew, and it's a bigger business today than it has ever been.

The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me

Change the boundaries of business.

Make mistakes faster.

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

The future of this business is far beyond the vision of any of us.

Business model innovation is constant in this economy. You start with a vision of a platform. For a while, you think there's a line of sight, and then it's gone. There's suddenly a new angle.

Sell to their needs-not from yours.

Nostalgia isn't a business model

Doing more with less, is a crucial principle to learn; especially if you're going to be in business in this rapidly changing world.

If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.

Use of paper has continued to soar. It is as though paper is taking its revenge on the futurists - not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction.

You need more than an idea to run a business

Research can trap you into the past.

Anything can change in show business, you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.