Daniel Suarez Quotes

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

One of the difficult things in a high-growth company is that, even with the best intentions, the company moves so fast, and growth happens so regularly. When you move at that rate, you have to be willing to change, and you have to be willing to take advice.

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

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.

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

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.

Flexibility is the key to stability.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

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.

Don't fear change - embrace it.

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.

You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

Our only security is our ability to 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.

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

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

If one has a flexible attitude, one knows how to deal with changing situations

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.'

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

I can reinvent myself. This is why I've stayed such a long time in the business: because I always change; I'm never the same person.

If you want to try new challenges you have to adapt.

Embracing change is central to Amazon's DNA.

Listen, things change, that's part of life. Part of what makes you great is being able to move when you need to move. Being limber, agile and roll with the punches so to speak.