Tyler Florence Quotes

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Human beings will make the best out of any situation.

It comes down to the difference between what you were planning to do and what life throws at you and you have to end up doing. The one who knows how to improvise is the one who comes out ahead.

FCA is a culture of leaders and employees that were born out of adversity and who operate without sheet music.

In TV, I did scripts that were not well-written, and I learned how to make bad material okay. That's a hard thing to do; you can learn bad habits, but you can also learn to find something in anything.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.

A leader has to find opportunities in any environment.

When surroundings change, we should also change how we make money.

You have to surprise opponents, keep them guessing. Doing the same thing over and over again without variation will not work.

Coming from a middle class background, I faced a lot of hardships during my initial years in Mumbai. I did not have much money and had to sing jingles and bhajans to survive. But those years taught me that a singer should be versatile.

We should be far more flexible about the way we play our cricket away from home. We can't just presume that what works at home will work away. We need to be more flexible and creative both in the way we play and the way we select.

Resilience is distinct from mere survival, and more than mere endurance. Resilience is often endurance with direction.

What you have to do is work around whatever the 'circumstances are at a club.

You've got to deal with the tools you have in hand. I'm a firm believer in that.

I'm good at pitching my weaknesses as strengths.

You play in different situations and conditions, and you have to come up with new solutions for the problems. It has made me a more rounded player, who can handle different tactics and positions.

You never know where your career will take you. A competitor in the market could suddenly become an unlikely partner. Be flexible, keep your slate clean, and stay open to unlikely collaborations.

I can go back and fall on my head any time.

I've proven I can hang in there, go through adversity, and pull tricks out of the bag.

It is such an uncertain universe out there that you have to create what I call 'real' options and develop capabilities that will enable you to deal with an environment that will change anyway.

I can play in six different positions where managers can trust me. It must give them food for thought knowing I can do a job in different positions.

Resilience can go an awful long way.

If I go to a restaurant, which I do often, I know what I want, and it's not on the menu half the time. Half the time, they have to adjust the menu or what they got in the back, and they'll make it for me.

One good thing about being in business is you learn to compromise. And so you learn to strike a deal that maybe isn't what you were looking for but is better than what you've got.