Ronnie Screwvala Quotes

I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday, and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, 'You know, they're right, that's better.' Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.

Think small. Don't pretend you know the answers. Experiment; get feedback. These are all the premises of 'Think Like a Freak,' really.

It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.

I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

So key for making smart decisions is a mindset that actively monitors and is open to shifting tides and new information, one that is acutely aware that the interplay between our environment and its outcomes is ever in flux.

Thinking differently is my strength.

Knowledge is now accepted as the best we humans can do at the moment, but with the hope that we will turn out to be wrong - and thus to advance our knowledge. What's happening to networked knowledge seems to make it much closer to the scientific idea of what knowledge is.

By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.

I don't learn in a certain way, but I have other skills.

I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.

I built a career out of knowing what I don't know.

Design, refine and repeat, and keep learning all the way along. It sounds bland and pedestrian, but in fact, it's the reverse.

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.

The virtue of small-to-midsize companies is that they tend to be more flexible and it is easier to experiment with new ways of working. So just try to tackle one problem you're really struggling with, together with your team. Get started and see what happens. Chances are you will be happy with the outcome.

We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.

Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say.

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

I don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.

Success in life is not how well we execute Plan A; it's how smoothly we cope with Plan B.