Diane Wood Quotes

There is no more reason to think that they expected the world to remain static than there is to think that any of us holds a crystal ball. The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

Just because something is working today doesn't mean it will work forever.

The key to Zeppelin's longevity has been change.

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

You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.

To have longevity in this business, you have to reinvent yourself. You can't keep doing the same stuff. Sometimes I've turned down stuff and lost money.

To sustain longevity, you have to evolve.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives. Nor is it the most intelligent. It is the members of the species that are most adaptive to change.

If I have learned nothing else in all my years here, my biggest lesson is you have to constantly reinvent this company. That's how you get to be 103 years old.

Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.

I take every season as it being different.

I think the key to the longevity is being able to reinvent yourself and to adopt and incorporate different things into your character.

GE is 130 years old because it keeps changing and evolving.

In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.

For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.

Life is fluid, ever evolving. The more dynamic you are, the more happens in your life, all the time.

All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good.

It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that.

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.

Life is not supposed to be this calcified experience where you don't change.

To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.