John Varvatos Quotes

By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be the richest time of your life so far.

Crisis creates opportunity.

Never waste a crisis.

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

The height of success is when you break your business, that is what I say! Just when you think things are really, really going well, that's the time to change.

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.

A great mantra to have, whether you're breaking up with your boyfriend or you lose your job, or something changes that you didn't anticipate - which is a fact of life, and very much a fact of running a business - is: 'I was OK before this, I will be OK after this.'

When you are small, and you have to try and prove yourself, it is tough. When others are catching up and copy you, that's tough. We constantly need to change ourselves to stay ahead of the game.

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.

It is well that the beaten ways of the world get trodden into mud : we are thus forced to seek new paths and pick out new lines of life.

I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.

If one sees far, structural changes that come with temporary disruptions can be growth- and efficiency-augmenting in the medium to long term.

Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

If you are losing at a game, change the game.

Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method of igniting our reactions in order to transform them.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

The world moves fast. Business moves fast. Digital media moves extremely fast. It is far too easy to allow ourselves to be constantly blown from one trend to the next.