Adaptability Quotes

A man of wisdom delights in water.

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

If you're good at course correcting, being wrong may be less costly than you think. Whereas being slow is going to be expensive for sure.

I'm not prepared to make any multi-decade commitments.

All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworths.

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which. If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.

When you receive criticism from well-meaning people, it pays to ask, 'Are they right?' And if they are, you need to adapt what they're doing. If they're not right, if you really have conviction that they're not right.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they'd already solved. They're open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.

What's dangerous is not to evolve, not to invent, not to improve the customer experience.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

I think companies have a big problem making a big transition, so leaders get replaced.

As you grow older, you become - everybody becomes - less inflexible and a little more accommodating.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.

Workers in every type of role must be prepared to adapt to the rise of artificial intelligence in the workplace.

We don't know what Sam would have done in these moments, but we know he would have been adapting - and he would have been aggressive. We're drawing on that legacy today and tapping into that DNA.

The truth is we have a consistent purpose that we got from our founder, some values that we share - those are persistent, too. It's not just change. But that's the thing that people underestimate about Walmart right now, that it has an ability to change.

One of the things that can keep you from going away is an openness to change. That's the point.

We need to learn how to become a digital enterprise, but we understand that we're a company made up of 2.2 million associates, and that human interaction in the future will matter.