Quotes About Adaptation

Jay Levinson famously said, "Don't change your ads when you're tired of them. Don't change them when your employees are tired of them. Don't even change them when your friends are tired of them. Change them when your accountant is tired of them.

120. What's It for? We have a meeting at 4:00 p.m. Okay, what's it for? Well, we always have this meeting . . . So, the "what's-it-for" is: It's easier to maintain the status quo than to risk not having the meeting. What the meeting is for is making sure that the people who like having the meeting aren't upset.

Holding on tightly to what we've got is at the heart of so many bad decisions.

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Ninic nu este static. Nimic nu r?mâne cum a fost. Tot ceea ce construieÈ™ti, proiectezi sau comercializezi urmeaz? s? schimbe piaÈ›a.

To be willing to do new things you don't think you'll like requires you to prefer the unknown. Not just to tolerate it, but to prefer it.

It doesn't make any sense to make a key and then run around looking for a lock to open. The only productive solution is to find a lock and then fashion a key. It's easier to make products and services for the customers you seek to serve than it is to find customers for your products and services.

It's hard to get blocked when you are moving, even if you're not moving in the direction you had in mind that morning

And most of all, it teaches people in the organization that it's okay not to be the best in the world.

There's a difference between passively accepting every element of your environment (and thus missing opportunities to exploit) and being wise enough to leave the unchangeable alone, or at least work around it.

Universities no longer spend as much time bragging about the size of their libraries. The

The Two Reasons Seeing the Future Is So Difficult Attachment to an outcome combined with the resistance and fear of change.

A Nine-Year-Old Kid Can Do Edgecraft While the edges always change, the process never does. Here's how you do it: Find a product or service that's completely unrelated to your industry. Figure out who's winning by being remarkable. Discover which edge they went to. Do that in your own industry.

In our time women can demonstrate prowess in a thousand ways. Long ago the great Princess Sun of Ping fought for her father, the August Sovereign. At her funeral, His Majesty called for the trumpets and drums to be sounded, an honor reserved for men. My dear, from this day you must dress her as a boy. Give her an education worthy of her own determination.

Suddenly, I'm lighter, only half of who I was.

Many of Ronald A. Fisher's ideas were solutions to computational problems caused by the limitations of the era's desk calculators.

And when she goes home,' Uncle Max said, 'to the place and the people she has romanticized all these months, she'll see that it isn't all she imagined. She'll be different, but they'll all expect her to be the same.

when he left, my dad said two things. First: Sometimes I envy your mom not being able to hear and Second: If Uncle Bill is allergic to cats maybe he won't be able to visit us anymore. Ha ha ha.

It is not easy to be stranded between two worlds, the sad truth is that we can never feel completely comfortable in either world.

She'd been torn, naked and defenseless, from a cocoon of privilege and power, with no skills for survival in this harsh new world.

Mayhap not, but a king ought to be far-sighted enough to realize that if reforms are inevitable, better he be the one to carry them out.

nothing in life turns out as we thought it would, nothing...

The instinct for profit, thought Jela—personal profit. That instinct was maybe not a long-term survival trait.

An error. Another error. Yet, in his experience, refusal to acknowledge an error did not reset circumstance to an error-free state.