Flexible Quotes

We are stubborn on vision. We are flexible on details.

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.

If you have a really good idea, stick to it, but be flexible on how you get there. Be stubborn on your vision but flexible on the details... People who are right a lot change their mind... They have the same data set that they had at the beginning, but they wake up, and they re-analyze things all the time, and they come to a new conclusion, and then they change their mind.

I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line [on tariffs]. They were getting yippy. You know, they were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid.... Over the last few days it looked pretty glum... You have to be flexible. You have to be able to show a little flexibility. And I'm able to do that.

While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.