Quotes about Adaptation

If you tell your competition your tactics, they'll steal them and it will cost you. But if you tell them your strategy, it won't matter. Because they don't have the guts or the persistence to turn your strategy into their strategy.

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.

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.

Life will not always change, so we must be willing to change.

Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Whatever gets you through the night is all right.

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world around him; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.