Business Evolution Quotes

Every market is in transition.

The perfect example of Darwinism is what technology has done to businesses.

There's major changes happening with technology and economics. But unfortunately, the initial reaction on any new frontier, it gets bloody, and people are overreacting, and very defensive, and they're not taking risks. In fact, they're taking such safe measures that they're shooting themselves in the foot.

I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

There's a smugness that goes with being a huge company. The big fish say, 'If it's so great, why didn't we invent it?' But how'd you like to be makin' buggy whips when cars came along?

I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.

Why is our free-enterprise system so strong?- Not because it stands still, frozen in the past, but because it has always adapted to changing realities

In the years that I've been in this business, a lot of things have changed in a major way. In all aspects.

The initial plan for Rooster Teeth is really different from the initial plan for the group, because we started as a group that was making one show: 'Red vs. Blue.'

Any company has got to reinvent itself again and again.

The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.

We are living at the beginning of the humanization of business.

Throughout history, the organizational evolution of the military has been inextricably linked with that of the business world.

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.

When I returned as CEO in 2008, Starbucks had forgotten that meaningful innovations balance an organization's heritage with modern-day relevance and market differentiation, so we had to reorient. In one brainstorming session, we visited and observed great retailers, then asked ourselves, 'If Starbucks did not exist, what type of coffee experience would we create?

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

There's the good and the bad aspects to Social Media. What I do find great is how much social media has changed businesses and the way they structure their marketing.

Most businesses change in character and quality over the years, sometimes for the better, perhaps more often for the worse. The investor need not watch his companies' performance like a hawk; but he should give it a good, hard look from time to time.

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

There is no way to create wealth without ideas. Most new ideas are created by newcomers. So anyone who thinks the world is safe for incumbents is dead wrong.

Innovation keeps me ahead of my competition. It means that my foes must adapt to me, not the other way around.

Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over time.

Ten percent of American businesses disappear every year. ... It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans. Ten percent of Americans don't disappear every year. Which leads us to conclude American businesses fail faster than Americans, and therefore American businesses are evolving faster than Americans.