Aaron Levie Quotes

The entrepreneurs that really make it are the ones that start with an idea but are ready to change it at a moment's notice.

If you're going to be a successful entrepreneur, you're going to have to be somebody who can tolerate a high rate of change, you have to be willing to put a lot more hours into it, you have to tolerate the fact that you're going to make more mistakes and have a culture that responds to that.

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.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

We need to build change in to our systems and let these systems evolve as circumstances change. Change is inevitable, but we need to do a better job of dealing with it, because when we start building huge gleaming monoliths, I think we start getting into trouble.

It's important for anyone working at a hyper growth company such as Airbnb to embrace learning and be open in order to keep pace with the changing environment.

I come from the hi-tech world - you don't survive if you don't constantly reinvent yourself every few years.

Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.

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.

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.

One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.

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

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.

Any company has got to reinvent itself again and again.

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

How you manage change can make all the difference.

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

There are lots of lessons to learn from Amazon. Never stop innovating or questioning the fundamentals of your business. Disrupt yourself before others do. Continually motivate employees so that they never get too complacent - see Yahoo, AOL and many other Internet companies for evidence of what happens when they do.

There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.

News organisations that have been around a while have a lot of traditions and ways of doing things that may have served them for many years but perhaps make them less flexible in the digital era. As an entrepreneur, it just makes more sense to start something new.

I've always said to everyone that ever worked for me, if you get too dug in on a position, the facts change, and you don't change to adapt to the facts, you will never be successful.

Luxembourg is such a small country that we always have to reinvent ourselves and take on a certain risk to succeed.

My job is called adaptation. It's always about adapting to new situations, but the core team is going to be the same.