Quotes About Adaptation

when attacked, centralized organizations tend to become even more centralized.

Not only did the Apaches survive the Spanish attacks, but amazingly, the attacks served to make them even stronger. When the Spanish attacked them, the Apaches became even more decentralized and even more difficult to conquer. When the Spanish destroyed their villages, the Apaches might have surrendered if the villages had been crucial to their society. But they weren't. Instead, the Apaches abandoned their old houses and became nomads. (Try to catch us now.)

This is the first major principle of decentralization: when attacked, a decentralized organization tends to become even more open and decentralized.

As for meat, let me say it upfront:Humans haven't fully adapted to eating meat.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.

You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.

in general, strategy should be reviewed every quarter and updated every year.

A person either hates losing enough to change or he hates changing enough to lose.

Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning.

You can be on the right track and still get run over if you're not moving.

Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.

A bad attitude is like a dirty diaper, life stinks until its changed.

Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.

Those who do not study their businesses do not stay in business.

Most complain about dried up lawns; others envy a neighbor's green lawn, but winners learn from all lawns while cultivating their own.

The challenge for a mentee is not only to learn what he doesn't know, but also to unlearn what he thinks he knows.

To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.

Defeats are merely repeats with better information.

Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.

Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

Women are another race. They are always changing, like the moon. You can only win by being the cool center of their being. You have to represent something solid and loving. The anchor. Even if you are not. You can't tell them the truth. You have to lie and play games. I've never in my entire life been with someone with whom I didn't have to play a game. I've never been with anyone with whom I could be exactly who I am.

Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.

He looks happy. Away from home like this, he seems a different person.