Danny Meyer Quotes

Today, you expand or you are expendable.

When you stop adapting, you lose your edge and you can only go down.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

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

Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up.

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

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

To sustain longevity, you have to evolve.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

I know that without change there would be no progress, but I am not going to mistake mere change for progress.

If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that.

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.

If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive.

I think competition is the best thing for everyone. Competition is what makes us evolve, from when we were itty bitty little tadpoles in prehistoric times to what we've turned into now. Competition makes us evolve and makes us push ourselves better.

I think the game's evolving - it always is. You don't want to be a dinosaur. You want to evolve with it.

You have to evolve. Stagnation breeds boredom.

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

Rugby is a game that's constant. If you are not growing with it, you get left behind.

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.

You have to keep evolving.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good.

Change or stagnate. Keep moving or die.