Jochen Zeitz Quotes

Crisis creates opportunity.

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

I know competition is there, and it can come my way by new, fresh faces that are around or are coming up. It pushes me to work hard. I know if I don't work hard, I will be left behind. So, I continue to work hard.

Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

You can't fail. The further you fall, the greater the opportunity for growth and change.

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

Anything that disturbs your comfort factor is good for you.

'Adapt and overcome' is my new motto.

Having no competition is a bad thing. Competition makes you try to improve yourself all the time.

Sometimes, we need an obstacle to challenge us and push us further than we would if things were always status quo. I'd say one example is the market crashing. It's like, just when we started to get into a rhythm, everything changed! But, it taught us a great deal about how we do business and how we can improve.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

I'm always driven to keep doing something different and better.

By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be the richest time of your life so far.

Defeat or the possibility of defeat is a great social motivating force for change.

I'm a big believer that success is never final and failure is never fatal.

Every time you go for more competition, some people don’t like it, but that’s the way it is. We believe it is better for the people.

I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.

As soon as you do something successfully, you're going to be known for that, and it's up to you to sort of move the needle again.

I believe that if you don't disrupt yourself, you will be disrupted by someone else.

As far as it growing, I believe it is always necessary to evolve. I am not one to rest on my laurels.

Sometimes you can win, and you are preparing to disrupt yourself. Sometimes you don't win, but you are preparing yourself to be better.

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