Les Brown Quotes

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

In any business, you have to evolve.

To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can't keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I've turned down stuff and lost money.

People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

Doing business is all about providing a good product or service to your customers. A good businessman is he who knows that what is successful today may not be so tomorrow. Technology changes so fast, and so do people's needs and wants. That's why it would do well for a businessman to know how to adapt to change. He must constantly reinvent the business, or it won't last.

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.

Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

As an actor, you always have to reinvent yourself or you end up in the gutter somewhere. It's my job to always change people's minds. I've known that for a long time and I've had to do it.

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

But in the free market system, you're forced to change.

I think you always have to be innovating and adapting and improving. You can't stay the same.

News organisations that have been around a while have a lot of traditions and ways of doing things that may have served them for many years but perhaps make them less flexible in the digital era. As an entrepreneur, it just makes more sense to start something new.

You always have to evolve - the minute you start building a moat around you to keep yourself safe, you're going to lose.

I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.

If you don't change and mix things up, you're going to get run over. One of the things we preach is change, change, change.

Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provides opportunities - to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work.

Change is an opportunity for everybody to think.

The external world is changing drastically, and enterprises and products will have a short lifecycle if they don't change. So we have to react to market trends. Nothing lasts forever in today's world.

You have to constantly change and evolve because people get bored. Look at The Undertaker: he's evolved so many times.

Luxembourg is such a small country that we always have to reinvent ourselves and take on a certain risk to succeed.

GE is 130 years old because it keeps changing and evolving.

All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.