Yehudi Menuhin Quotes

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

Our only security is our ability to change.

We tell prospective hires, 'If you want an environment that is never going to change, don't come here. This is not the place for you.'

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

The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'

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.

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

You can never plan the future by the past.

You can't plan anything, right? You can try.

It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to fight against that somewhat, as starting a business requires movement. You cannot stay still.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

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.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

I believe it's less risky long-term to embrace change.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

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

I believe businesses don't grow or develop in terms of a blueprint. There is a huge element of opportunism involved.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

Adaptability is a great asset to have because life is so unpredictable, and things can change overnight for any of us.

You embrace disruption. I think it's a good thing.

The things that worked for us in the past wasn't going to work the same way going forward.

Fix a few things here, improve a few things there, launch a new feature every so often. That's coasting. And I don't want Basecamp to coast.

My folks were very practical. They were also kind of able to think outside of the box. They were not going to let circumstance paralyze them. They knew sometimes you just had to take some new initiative. I think they passed that on to all of us... If you don't find a way, you make one.