Gregory Benford Quotes

The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change.

I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.

Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding.

I'm sure that everyone has been in a situation in their lives where they've had to change their game plan.

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

When you find yourself hitting up against a wall over and over again, it's time to try a different route.

Knowing some guys are way bigger than you, way faster than you, you have to find other ways to do what you want to do.

If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don't change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.

It's so important to adapt, think outside the box, and stay ahead if you want to grow.

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

The publishing scene in India is evolving rapidly, and the key challenge is to keep reinventing oneself so that one does not become formulaic. Sometimes it is safer to deal with the consequences of failure than the fruits of success. Remaining on one's toes is critical, and often one finds that success makes one complacent.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve.

All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.

Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Sometimes, we need an obstacle to challenge us and push us further than we would if things were always status quo. I'd say one example is the market crashing. It's like, just when we started to get into a rhythm, everything changed! But, it taught us a great deal about how we do business and how we can improve.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

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.