Robert N. Anthony Quotes

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

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

I have met many entrepreneurs who have the passion and even the work ethic to succeed - but who are so obsessed with an idea that they don't see its obvious flaws. Think about that. If you can't even acknowledge your failures, how can you cut the rope and move on?

Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.

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.

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life.

A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.

You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.

Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.

Not changing your strategy merely because you're used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.

I love to work in all sorts of different situations. I think you learn a lot, which is why I try not to approach something the same way, because it might not be appropriate, and then you can get lazy just out of boredom. So I love any approach.

Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.

Competence is the enemy of change!

I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.

If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.

When something doesn't go exactly to plan, money is tight or a business is struggling - see it as a challenge rather than a failure. Look outside the box and try and find a solution - you'll be surprised how many great opportunities and possibilities arise when things look bad. You've just got to open your mind and not be afraid of sticking your neck out!