Quotes About Flexibility

IMPROVE YOUR APPROACH. You keep getting rejected in bars? Find a different place, where the odds aren't stacked against you. Nobody responding to your networking e-mails for "Ten minutes of your time please?" Then offer something. Give something for free so people immediately see value in your approach immediately. You keep cold-calling customers and they hang up? Find a different way to get distribution. CHANGE UP, DON'T GIVE UP.

The day and age of the massive corporations that take care of us from beginning to end are over.

At any point in your career, you are either a thermostat or a thermometer.

Perfectionism is the enemy of the idea muscle.

As your idea muscle improves, so will your ability to "fail quickly"—which is a much more crucial skill to hone than executing quickly.

And by the way, I know my title said "10 Reasons" and I only listed "6". I didn't learn to count in college.

If too many things have to happen in order to bring about the situation you want, then back out of it and try again later.

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But, you can't just go on being a brick stonewall forever.' 'I don't see why not,' she said. 'Nor do I see how not.

He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them.

Far more difficult than implementing change is figuring out what works, understanding why it works, grasping when to change, and knowing when not to.

it is far more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will certainly change as the world about you changes.

Truly great companies understand the difference between what should never change and what should be open for change, between what is genuinely sacred and what is not.

We all snickered at some writers who viewed Dad [Sam Walton] as a grand strategist who intuitively developed complex plans and implemented them with precision. Dad thrived on change, and no decision was ever sacred.

planful opportunism

Those who built the visionary companies wisely understood that it is better to understand who you are than where you are going—for where you are going will almost certainly change. It is a lesson as relevant to our individual lives as to aspiring visionary companies.

A company should not change its core values in response to market changes; rather, it should change markets, if necessary, to remain true to its core values.

Enduring great companies preserve their core values and purpose while their business strategies and operating practices endlessly adapt to a changing world. This is the magical combination of "preserve the core and stimulate progress.

About 50 percent of great leadership is what you do with the unexpected.

it is more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will change as the world around you changes.

The kind of knowledge required in such endeavors is not deductive knowledge from first principles but rather what Greeks of the classical period called métis, a concept to which we shall return. Usually translated, inadequately, as "cunning," métis is better understood as the kind of knowledge that can be acquired only by long practice at similar but rarely identical tasks, which requires constant adaptation to changing circumstances.

Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries.

If there is no wind, you must learn to row.   —Polish Proverb

Lee knew that the key to victory lay not only in terms of engineering or mathematics, but in a crew's ability to adjust psychologically to the unexpected.