John McAfee Quotes

Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital.

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

With each new day in Africa, a gazelle wakes up knowing he must outrun the fastest lion or perish. At the same time, a lion stirs and stretches, knowing he must outrun the fastest gazelle or starve. It's no different for the human race. Whether you consider yourself a gazelle or a lion, you have to run faster than others to survive.

Today, you expand or you are expendable.

You must change in order to survive.

But in the free market system, you're forced to change.

If it's not growing, it's going to die.

The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.

Market systems all threaten the continued existence of those who are currently successful if they fail to adapt to changes they do not control. This tension is essential to markets serving human well-being better than other economic systems. But at the same time it means that organizations within them have interests at cross-purposes to the system itself. This is true for all spontaneous orders: markets, science, and democracies.

Adapt or die.

The middle-class America of my youth was another country.

We have to look for opportunities if we're going to survive the next 50 years. We can't depend on what we have now.

Since I became CEO, 87 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are off the list. What that says is that companies that don't reinvent themselves will be left behind. I also think that's true of people. And I think it's true of countries.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive.

It's important to reinvent yourself often, because if you don't, someone else will and squash you like a bug.

You've got to adapt - or get out.

I think the game's evolving - it always is. You don't want to be a dinosaur. You want to evolve with it.

If you've worked in a factory, and you haven't learned how to do something else, you're obsolete. That's just nature.

To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to change, or even better learn to benefit from change and grow intellectually and personally. That means careful listening and constant learning.

The person who insists on using yesterday's methods in today's world won't be in business tomorrow

I am a big believer of what Darwin discovered in the Galapagos, proving that the species most responsive to change will survive over apparently stronger or more intelligent competitors.