Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
Interpretation
Continuous learning and innovation are essential for future success, and past achievements alone are not enough.
This quote emphasizes the importance of ongoing learning and the need to innovate in order to stay relevant and successful. It warns against complacency that can arise from past successes, reminding us that what worked yesterday may not be enough to ensure success in the future. The dynamic nature of life and work requires us to adapt and grow continually.
In practice
In a corporate meeting focused on strategy, you might use this quote to stress the importance of adaptation.
If you pay a child a dollar to read a book, as some schools have tried, you not only create an expectation that reading makes you money, you also run the risk of depriving the child for ever of the value of it. Markets are not innocent.
I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my fiction to some degree, because, you know, my fiction is often based on history that I've read.
When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.
Young men and women, your education is ever important - to us, to you, and to God.
What we need is a world full of miracles, like the miracle of seeing the young child seeking work and independence, and manifesting a wealth of enthusiasm and love.
You can control and censor a child's reading, but you can't control her interpretations; no one can guess how a message that to adults seems banal or ridiculous or outmoded will alter itself and evolve inside the darkness of a child's heart.
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