Quotes About Adaptation

Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.

Creativity comes from constraint.

You can never go too far wrong by thinking like a customer who's new to the business.

They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business.

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

Swipe from the best, then adapt.

Even my agents say, 'We don't know what this business is anymore.'

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.

Tracking account planning is rather like counting a mixed batch of tropical fish. You think you see patterns, but they've all changed by the time you've finished counting.

I was just shaking and then also immediately, I had to go into 'take-care-of-business-mode' which included a change to a more healthy diet.

In each business, there is a process, or a delivery system or information system, that is changing rapidly under them.

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

We start with our consumers and spend an exorbitant amount of time talking with them, trying to figure out what's driving them, finding out where they are and how they're changing things.

Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently?

To the people of Illinois let me say this. Business as usual IS OVER.

When I reached the top in business, I adjusted to my new position – I became bolder and crazier than before. And I listened even less to people who tried to slow me down.

For a business plan written when the hardware was a wire-wrapped board and the software was three demos on a graphics substrate, it was pretty close.

The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.

Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

The best businesses adopt a similar approach to Google. They are consistently looking for ways to improve what they do.

It will be only a matter of time before the music business establishment completely folds.

There were times when there were parts that I was sure I got and then I didn't, and I did get upset. But at this point, it doesn't affect me in the least because I know how the business works.