Spencer Johnson Quotes

When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new.

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.

You can't just stick with something that doesn't work.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.

If you just sit on what you've created, chances are you're not going to be around much longer.

If you don't get better, staying the same is probably not good enough.

Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different

When you have a challenge and the response is equal to the challenge, that's called 'success'. But once you have a new challenge, the old, once-successful response no longer works. That's why it is called a 'failure'.

You can't fail. The further you fall, the greater the opportunity for growth and change.

The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

Success is never final, but failure can be.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

The whole concept behind 'Forty Chances' is really a mindset: If everybody thought they had to put themselves out of business in 40 years, you had 40 chances to succeed in what your primary goals are, you would probably be more urgent and you would be forced to change quicker.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.

There will be some things I do well and things I do wrong. But I keep coming. Playing with heart. That's going to help me continue to grow.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.

You make a ton of progress by making a ton of mistakes.