Paul W. S. Anderson Quotes

In any business, you have to evolve.

In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.

No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't.

Growth makes management easier. In particular, it makes making labor concessions seem easy. It's when growth stops because you're being disrupted that managing becomes really, really hard, and as a result, most disrupted companies simply disappear.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Since I became CEO, 87 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are off the list. What that says is that companies that don't reinvent themselves will be left behind. I also think that's true of people. And I think it's true of countries.

Adaptability and constant innovation is key to the survival of any company operating in a competitive market.

We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment.

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.

In today's competitive economy, to stand still is to die.

Practically every enterprise is threatened and put on the defensive as soon as it comes into existence.

There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.

Adapt or Die

We have to look for opportunities if we're going to survive the next 50 years. We can't depend on what we have now.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: 'What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?'

When you're a large company with significant market share, it's tempting to view market disruptions as a threat, but we view them as an opportunity.

You either innovate or you become defunct.

Being an iconic food company can be both a blessing and a curse. It can be a curse if, amidst change, you maintain the status quo. It is a blessing if you leverage the change coupled with capability to seize new opportunities.

Businesses that don't evolve are businesses that die.

Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.

Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.

You have to keep evolving.

You adapt, evolve, compete or die.

In a business, you've got to move on.

It's very important for a brand to have an identity through the years, but it's very important as well to evolve because times change so fast.