John Dewey Quotes

A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability. Otherwise, they will be overwhelmed by the changes in which they are caught and whose significance or connections they do not perceive. The result will be a confusion in which a few will appropriate to themselves the results of the blind and externally directed activities of others.

Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.

The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.

Change is debilitating when it is done to us. Change is exhilarating when it is done by us.

I always roll with the way things are, so as soon as one decision happens, you just realign and move on and make another decision.

You have to be able to adjust with the moment, whether it's an injury, a result.

The innovators' spirit of America still exists. However, there is a narrative in America which goes like - you must go to MIT to get your calling card. Or you go to Harvard and then you drop out and then you've made it.

I think we operate in a very dynamic marketplace, and as such, we need to constantly innovate.

My father worked with a first-grade education in this country and managed every single day without a hiccup.

Public universities are the lifeblood of modern democracies.

I can adapt to any situation.

Everyone in a successful organization must be willing and ready to risk. Risk is like change; it's not a choice.

It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.

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

If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.

Expect change. Analyze the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It's your move.

It is not balance you need but adaptability.

The ability to adapt is everything!

If you're going to be a successful entrepreneur, you're going to have to be somebody who can tolerate a high rate of change, you have to be willing to put a lot more hours into it, you have to tolerate the fact that you're going to make more mistakes and have a culture that responds to that.

We have very stable mechanisms of conflict resolution in terms of labor relations, we have a very good transportation infrastructure, we provide our children with an excellent education and the gap between rich and poor in Germany is relatively narrow. On the other hand, we have trouble accepting change.

There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.

I'm sharp... What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle. How to make something out of nothing.