Quotes About Adaptive intelligence

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

— H. G. Wells

"The Ability to Read and Act on Signals"

— Unknown

"Ford's adherence to his vision of the mass-market car and how to materialize that vision was instrumental in both his early success in growing Ford Motor Company as well as his later failure to respond in a timely and effective manner to rapid innovation in the marketplace."

— Patrick Vlaskovits, Entrepreneur

"Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there."

— Zig Ziglar

"Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change."

— Richard Branson

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

— Henry Ford

"Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method and abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it."

— Henry Ford

"Kodak engineer Steve Sasson invented the digital camera in the company's R&D labs in the 1970s but Kodak failed to lead the digital photography revolution because it failed to adapt"

— The Economist

"There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"Adaptability is key."

— Marc Andreessen

"And the most successful people are those who accept, and adapt to constant change. This adaptability requires a degree of flexibility and humility most people can't manage."

— Paul Lutus

"Adaptability is being able to adjust to any situation at any given time."

— John Wooden, Coach, 10x National Champion

"Don't be afraid to innovate, but at the same time don't delude yourself into thinking something is working when it is not working or fixated on a bad solution."

— Elon Musk

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

— George Bernard Shaw

"Instead of hiding from failure, insanely successful people anticipate and integrate failure into their lives in ways that transform it from an end into a means."

— Eric Ries, The Lean Start-up

"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."

— John Kenneth Galbraith

"Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers."

— H.G. Wells

"Intelligence is hitting a target that nobody else can. Genius is hitting a target that nobody else can see."

— Arthur Schopenhauer

"If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve."

— Jeff Bezos

"To be a leader or to succeed in your business or field, you need to be able to see those circular trends long before they become conventional wisdom."

— Sataya Nadella (CEO Microsoft).

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

— Albert Einstein

"The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings."

— Kakuzo Okakura.

"It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change."

— Leon C. Megginson

"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."

— Walt Disney

"The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher."

— Chinese Proverb

"A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it."

— Anonymous

"Grades in school are not the best criteria for success. Integrity, adaptive Intelligent and energy are the key criteria for success"

— Conor Neill

"Both enjoyed lucrative near-monopolies of their home markets: Kodak selling film in America, Fujifilm in Japan. Why did these two firms fare so differently? Both firms saw their traditional business rendered obsolete by digital photography and the mobile phone. But whereas Kodak has so far failed to adapt adequately, Fujifilm has transformed itself into a solidly profitable business by developing better strategy to adapt to the new trend."

— The Economist January 2012

"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. It's the end you're after."

— Anthony Robbins

"Adaptive Intelligence is our ability to quickly observe change and quickly change direction to avoid trouble, for example, when you are running and you see a lamp post coming towards you, how quickly do you notice the lamp post that is in your path and quickly change direction to avoid being hit by the lamp post?"

— Conor Neill

"Everyone encounters unanticipated adversity. People with an empowered, growth-oriented mind-set embrace adversity as a means for improvement, as opposed to something that holds them back. When an unexpected situation challenges an empowered person, they flex until they get results."

— Dr Travis Bradley, author

"I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it's abundant for quite a long period of time, and then at some point it's no longer there, and so, when you look at that bigger picture, yes, you realize that either you change and adapt, or, as a species, you go extinct."

— Louise Leakey

"Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education."

— Peter Hilton

"No matter what role innate genetic endowment may play in the achievement of gifted people, the main gift that these people have is the same one we all have, the adaptability of the human brain and body, which they have taken advantage of more than the rest of us. We can also take advantage of this if we take control of our life. Over time, with hard work and dedication we can transform our abilities into something graceful and natural."

— Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool, Peak

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change."

— Charles Darwin

"Refusal to continuously test your vision against reality and adapt may lead to failure. Many companies have failed because of this. Ford's failure to continuously test his vision against reality led to the company's failure to continuously innovate, resulting in a catastrophic loss of market share which it never recovered from."

— Patrick Vlaskovits, Entrepreneur