Quotes About Adaptation

The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.

I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

You must master a new way to think, before you can master a new way to be.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.

If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.

If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late!

Man studied birds for centuries, trying to learn how to make a machine to fly like them. He never did do the trick; his final success came when he broke away entirely and tried new methods.

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.

There is no such thing as a permanent advertising success.

I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.

Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success

If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.

Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

The great ones realize that what you did yesterday guarantees you nothing today. The challenge is too many people are busy celebrating yesterday's success.

Be commonplace and creeping and you'll be a success.

Fast tempo is essential for success; do it, fix it, try it!

Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.

Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war.

The success of any change depends, in large measure, on your attitude about that change.