Li Ning Quotes

No matter what business you are in, there is change, and it's happening pretty quickly.

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

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

Businesses that don't evolve are businesses that die.

Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.

In any business, you have to evolve.

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

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

Whatever business you're in - it doesn't matter - it's going to commoditize over time. It's going to devalue. You've got to keep moving it to a higher value.

... whatever business you're in, it doesn't matter, it's going to commoditize over time, it's going to devalue, you've got to keep moving it to a higher value. Keep going to a higher value in whatever it is that you do and force yourself and force the organization to always do it ahead of time

Any of our businesses will not exist in the form that is today, will not exist in the same form one year later, two years later... We have to worry about the disruptions in the business models and the practices.

When you're a large company with significant market share, it's tempting to view market disruptions as a threat, but we view them as an opportunity.

Business models that are relevant today are not relevant tomorrow and were not in existence yesterday.

Our success at Cisco has been defined by how we anticipate, capture, and lead through market transitions. Over the years, I've watched iconic companies disappear - Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Wang, Digital Equipment - as they failed to anticipate where the market was heading.

The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster, and continue to transform.

To thrive, all businesses must focus on the art of self-disruption. Rather than wait for the competition to steal your business, every founder and employee needs to be willing to cannibalize their existing revenue streams in order to create new ones. All disruption starts with introspection.

You have to seed internal disruptors. You need sources of internal disruption. They don't guarantee your survival, but you have got to try.

Never accept or be too comfortable with the status quo, because the companies that get into trouble are historically the ones that aren't able to adapt to change and respond quickly enough.

Doing business is all about providing a good product or service to your customers. A good businessman is he who knows that what is successful today may not be so tomorrow. Technology changes so fast, and so do people's needs and wants. That's why it would do well for a businessman to know how to adapt to change. He must constantly reinvent the business, or it won't last.

To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.

No amount of artificial protection can permanently maintain an obsolete product, an inferior process or a moribund organization against competitors which are based on scientifically improved products or methods.

Every market is in transition.

In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.

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