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“Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding power often exceeds loyalty to family or country because they create intimacy through shared ideals and beliefs, ceremonies, stories, and legends, and depend on it for their survival. The message is clear: Don't question what we're doing. Just appreciate how long we've been doing it.”

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”

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Author:Andy Grove

“Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.”

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Author:George S. Patton

“Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.”

“Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.”

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Author:Andrew Carnegie

“Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.”

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Book:Survival Is Not Enough: Shift Happens

Source: Survival Is Not Enough: Shift Happens

“Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.”

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Author:Jeffrey R. Immelt

“I've been seeing the change. It's been steady. It's been more controlled than people think. And my own belief is that China knows it also needs to be part of the world, and that it needs to be able to have trade with Europe and the United States in order to house and feed a billion people. That's really kind of single-mindedly what they see their role as being.”

“I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. I had no training or experience and my only business acumen was Gordon's advice to take sales of £300 a week. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.”

“I doubt that religion can survive deep understanding. The shallows are its natural habitat. Cranks and fundamentalists are too often victimised as scapegoats for religion in general. It is only quite recently that Christianity reinvented itself in non-fundamentalist guise, and Islam has yet to do so.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“The success and ultimately the survival of every business, large or small, depends in the last analysis on its ability to develop people. This ability is not measured by any of our conventional yardsticks of economic success; yet, is the final measurement.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back.”

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Author:Eddie Rickenbacker

“We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.”

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Author:Jeff Bezos

“The real secret is to build an organization that isn't afraid to make changes while it is still successful, before change becomes imperative for survival.”

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Author:Lewis E. Platt

“As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays