Blackbear Quotes

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

Since I became CEO, 87 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are off the list. What that says is that companies that don't reinvent themselves will be left behind. I also think that's true of people. And I think it's true of countries.

I think competition is the best thing for everyone. Competition is what makes us evolve, from when we were itty bitty little tadpoles in prehistoric times to what we've turned into now. Competition makes us evolve and makes us push ourselves better.

Today, you expand or you are expendable.

Adapt or Die

GE is 130 years old because it keeps changing and evolving.

If you don't EVOLVE, you dissolve. You evolve or you evaporate.

IF you don't change, you can become extinct!

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

Capitalism and political systems - like companies - must constantly evolve to stay vital.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

When you are through changing, you are through.

If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

You must change in order to survive.

When you are small, and you have to try and prove yourself, it is tough. When others are catching up and copy you, that's tough. We constantly need to change ourselves to stay ahead of the game.

If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game.

Customers are willing to try new things, and if you can survive, you will have fewer competitors. It's like entering the eye of the storm. As long as you are strong enough to survive, you can end up in still water by yourself.

The packaged food business environment is very Darwinian. You're fighting for survival every year; you evolve and grow or you die. It's really that simple.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Adapt or die.

We have to look for opportunities if we're going to survive the next 50 years. We can't depend on what we have now.

I believe that if you don't disrupt yourself, you will be disrupted by someone else.

If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive.