Quotes About Evolution

Business as usual doesn't work, that we're in a time where we have to rethink a lot of the basic ground rules and assumptions of our civilizations.

If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.

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.

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

Nothing works better than just improving your product.

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

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

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

Don't 'tolerate' mistakes. Embrace them!

If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.

Radio was supposed to die in 1945, when TV came along. It turns out that radio grew and grew, and it's a bigger business today than it has ever been.

Change the boundaries of business.

Make mistakes faster.

As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

Liberty is always unfinished business

Business model innovation is constant in this economy. You start with a vision of a platform. For a while, you think there's a line of sight, and then it's gone. There's suddenly a new angle.

Nostalgia isn't a business model

Use of paper has continued to soar. It is as though paper is taking its revenge on the futurists - not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction.

We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition - that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.

Research can trap you into the past.