Jack Welch Quotes

You need to be very critical of yourself because MMA is a singular sport. You have to make the changes yourself or nothing will change. You have to be the one making the changes.

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

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

Moving with the times is an important idea for strategy today.

I think I've changed my business strategy every year since 2003. You have to be watching the horizon constantly. The rug has been pulled out from under our feet so many times.

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

You change your business plan to anticipate and adapt to changes in the marketplace.

...if reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith..... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

If you don't have a strategy, you're part of someone else's strategy.

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

What we will become depends on us

You are the creator of your own destiny

One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.

Time is passing, ... We have to look at the reality of the situation and ... redouble our efforts and get on with it.

The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly

I think the reality of prison is you don't get anything unless you want it in there. Whatever happens to you in prison, this is what you asked for. Nothing happens to you if you don't give that vibe.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

A man's fate is his own temper.

What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.