Guo Guangchang Quotes

The winner of the next war will be he who learns the most and learns the fastest.

The Future Belongs to Those Who are Fast

Observe, orient, decide, act. It's fighter pilot terminology. If you have the faster OODA loop in a dogfight, you live. The other person dies. In Silicon Valley, the OODA loop of your decision-making is effectively what differentiates your ability to succeed.

The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

You've got to keep reinventing. You'll have new competitors. You'll have new customers all around you.

As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.

There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.

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

In the technology world, you have to execute fast or you're out of business.

And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you've got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.

The Internet moves very fast. In the old world, we could afford to sit and analyze forever. But in the new world, the first mover has the advantage.

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

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

To be effective, we must also be fast, because everything is happening faster.

We are approaching a time when human intelligence alone will be incapable of managing a highly advanced society. Existing technologies are rapidly exceeding the human capacity to absorb and process information.

The external world is changing drastically, and enterprises and products will have a short lifecycle if they don't change. So we have to react to market trends. Nothing lasts forever in today's world.

You can talk about systems until you're blue in the face but that's secondary - if you're closing down, if you're first to the ball, it doesn't really matter what system you've got.

The market is moving so fast, there is nothing set into the wall. You need to be very, very flexible.

The truth is that intelligence, knowledge, and domain expertise are vastly overrated as the driving forces behind competitive advantage and sustainable success.

I am fast and I always try to exploit that.

Our legacy platforms have served us well for decades, but we're running out of upgrades that will keep us ahead. Technology is changing too fast, and our enemies are too adaptable.

I think playing the 5 is an advantage for me. I'm much quicker than a lot of the other centers in our league.