Priti Patel Quotes

You need to be honest and always see new opportunities coming. So I call it intuition, innovation, execution - these are my working principles.

The societies that embrace openness will be those that compete and succeed effectively.

Our only security is our ability to change.

The Future Belongs to Those Who are Fast

I can't say enough about the guts and the talents of Amazon. They're so agile, they're so nimble; they picked us up two weeks after we premiered, and their whole attitude is, 'Go, go, go, go,' so I'm very, very impressed.

I think one of the reasons why our brand has grown is because we never close any opportunity. We are open to anything and then we sort of move forward from there.

Leaders have to be intensely aware and be bold and flexible enough to adjust course ahead of impending changes.

Any time I see an opportunity to get ahead, I take it.

To survive in the future, we will need our economy to be dynamic, entrepreneurial, innovative and flexible.

You must be on top of change or change will be on top of you.

You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.

It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.

Fast learners win.

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.

And as an actor - or even as a person in the industry - if you're unwilling to change, you're just going to get swamped. You've got to be flexible, and you've got to go with the flow. That's what I try to do as an actor.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.

Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.

Some people revel in getting their hands dirty. These are the people that make startups grow wildly. People with hustle also tend to be much more agile - they're the water that goes around the rock. These are the people you want around when everything goes wrong. They're also the people you want beside you when everything goes right.

I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.