Jean Nouvel Quotes

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

If you see that something is not working, you have to be willing to change course.

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

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.

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.

If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will change radically. You need people who are adaptable because the thing that makes you the best in the world in one generation of games is going to be totally useless in the next.

Different times require different types of men.

All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can.

The way in which you accomplish your goals and help your customers needs to be very flexible depending upon how those customers are reacting in real time.

The core hacker premise that 'code wins arguments' is just another way of saying that anything is worth trying, regardless of whether it is a conservative or liberal idea, and that whatever works is worth keeping.

As we've got more data, and ClassPass has grown, we've had to change rather than have a one-size fits all approach.

You pick what your customers want, not what your entrenched business model may require you to do.

You are not always going to be able to knock it and run. You are going to have to use the other foot, mix things up, use the brain.

The formation is not the most important thing.

The thing about it is, I'm one of these people that if you're not getting anywhere, you gotta change it up, and you gotta ask more questions.

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .

You've gotta be dynamic in media. That's the only thing that's gonna work.

I like the idea of experimenting with different kinds of formats, and I think you've got to keep on your toes and keep changing.