Li Ka-shing Quotes

People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.

Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

I hold that man in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory!

To continue in one path is to go backward.

You can’t look too far ahead. Do that and you’ll lose sight of what you’re doing and stumble. I’m not saying you should focus solely on the details right in front of you, mind you. You’ve got to look ahead a bit or else you’ll bump into something. You’ve got to conform to the proper order and at the same time keep an eye out for what’s ahead. That’s critical, no matter what you’re doing.

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader's arsenal.

A drunk doesn't try to stand up; a drunk tries not to fall down.

The one-legged never stumble.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

Surviving, that's my plan.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

My advice: Just keep movin' straight ahead. Every now and then you find yourself in a different place.

If you don't look ahead, you'll always be behind.

To stand still is to regress.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

Survival of the fittest is over. Get over it. We need survival of the wisest.