Quotes About Adaptation

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.

Do it, fix it, try it.

The rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage.

I didn't have friends. No one talked to me. I used to go to the Wyndcroft School (nationally recognized for academic excellence) in Pottstown, and when I moved to Wyomissing, I didn't know anybody.

An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.

I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.

What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.

Don't be afraid to start over again. This time you're not starting from scratch, you're starting from experience.

Experience precedes understanding.

The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.

Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.

We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.

Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.

Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.

From now on, change will be the constant. The individuals best prepared to succeed are those who can learn, modify, and grow, regardless of age, experience, or ego.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

A newborn already has nine months of experience when she is born.

Do what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.

Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.

I don't like to compare years, honestly. I think every year is a different experience, a different challenge. You grow. You evolve as a person and as a player.