“Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying to provoke positive change is a principle we've embedded across the Virgin family for more than four decades.” TryingStillsStoriesChangeCompanyPrinciplesFourConstantForgottenDecadesTalesProvokingVirginsEmbeddedRevisionPositive ChangeSuccess StoriesBusiness Change Author:Richard Branson
“Remember, how often the great art of the past didn't look great at first, how often it didn't look like art at all; how much easier it is, decades or centuries later, to adore it, not only because it is, in fact, great but because it's still here; because the inevitable little errors and infelicities tend to recede in an object that's survived the War of 1812, the eruption of Krakatoa, the rise and fall of Nazism.” FirstsLooksLittlesArtStillsWarFactsPastRememberFallCenturyObjectsEasierErrorsDecadesInevitableSurvivedAdoreGreat ArtNazismRise And FallEruptionWar Of 1812 Author:Michael Cunningham
“If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?” IfsShouldStillsImportantGrowthTermFocusMissingAskingDecadesImportant Questions Book:Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“The only gift my dad ever bought me is still in my jewelry box. It died at 10 minutes to 11 decades ago, but the gold Caravelle watch keeps my dad alive. A watch isn't about keeping time. It's about stopping it.” StillsWatchesAliveMinutesDadGoldDiedMy DadBoxesDecadesStoppingJewelryJewelry Boxes Author:Regina Brett
“In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.” KnowsFirstsHas BeensMadeStillsSeemsNextDecisionVisionOur LivesShapesDrawsHundredTwentiesDecadesCardsDeckIndecisionRevision Book:Rules of Civility: A Novel Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel
“We must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this situation radically in a short time, and that only through the united efforts of our younger generation and all our people, working with their own hands, can China be made strong and prosperous within a period of several decades. The establishment of our socialist system has opened the road leading to the ideal society of the future, but to translate this ideal into reality needs hard work.” PeopleNeedsMadeStillsCountryHardHelpingHandsRealityYoungStrongPoorUnitedEffortSituationGenerationsHard WorkPeriodsIdealsChinaDecadesEstablishmentTranslateSocialistProsperousShort TimeYounger GenerationPoor CountriesIdeal Society Author:Mao Zedong
“My main professional interest during the 1970s has been in the dramatic change of concepts and ideas that has occurred in physics during the first three decades of the century, and that is still being elaborated in our current theories of matter. The new concepts in physics have brought about a profound change in our world view; from the mechanistic conception of Descartes and Newton to a holistic and ecological view, a view which I have found to be similar to the views of mystics of all ages and traditions.” WorldFirstsHas BeensStillsIdeasMatterAgeThreeFoundInterestViewsCenturyTheoryConceptsTraditionProfoundCurrentsDecadesPhysicsDramaticOur WorldConceptionNewtonEcologicalHolisticWorld ViewDramatic Change Author:Fritjof Capra