Quotes About Flexibility

Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is possible to avoid saying either.

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

There is time to go long, time to go short and time to go fishing.

If you want to succeed, you've got to be okay to just lose control.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Social Media are tools, Real Time is a mindset.

Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

Essentials of how to do a startup do not include writing a business plan

Change the boundaries of business.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

Doing more with less, is a crucial principle to learn; especially if you're going to be in business in this rapidly changing world.

Anything can change in show business, you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.

Improvisation in the jazz sense - like the business sense - is not formless. It is built on a skill set. Jazz, for example, involves selecting a tune.

There's a Harvard Business School thing that says, 'Every 10 years you should replant yourself,' and the only way to keep young is to learn new things and keep curious.

In this business, if you don't have the capacity to step back and have some sort of relativity about things, you're screwed.

An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

For a business plan written when the hardware was a wire-wrapped board and the software was three demos on a graphics substrate, it was pretty close.

The sooner we realize that the world has changed, the sooner we can accept it and make something of what we've got. Whining isn't a scalable solution.

The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.