Relevance Quotes

“The permission to wander around, imagine, ask questions, and challenge assumptions allows magic to happen and new possibilities to emerge.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

“Instead of waiting for a system to coalesce into consistency, the successful actor must learn to operate in complex, uncertain, and ever-changing environments.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

“Relevance is both an antidote to avoid and a method for driving disruption.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

“Maintaining relevance requires constant redefinition, reframing, ideating, prototyping, and testing of our choices.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty

“For those intent on business as usual, the scope of value destruction is growing.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“The future is not just about startups but stay-ups; anyone can start but it takes those who can stand the test of time to stay relevant.”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

“Dominant languages might keep a little staying power even after their armies decline—Portuguese, for instance, has far outstayed its welcome—but they always fade from relevance eventually.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Irrelevance only creeps up on you if you let it.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Nobody cares about you, your brand, or your company. You're irrelevant...until proven otherwise.”
― Steve Woodruff, Clarity Wins: Get Heard. Get Referred.

“The reason
consistency is valuable
and is a currency that
measures the value of
the personal brand is
because of reliability.”
― Richard Mwebesa, Out of the Crowd

“In the middle of some of the most passionate debates, I often ask my patients, “At your funeral, will it matter?” And it is amazing how often that question is followed by absolute silence.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“No matter how good you are! Never allow yourself becoming irrelevant? It’s like a wandering soul without the body. Suddenly you are invisible. No-one notice your presence, want to do something but it would make no difference, want to say something but you are voiceless. You require people to listen, but they cant. The set-up is different, you are there but you aren’t.”
― Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“Stress, peace, pain, happiness, sorrow, greed, gratitude, harmony, conflict, love, hate, positivity, negativity - we are surrounded by these feelings every moment. What we gather and keep in our pocket is our choice.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“You cannot sell anything when the buyer is unsure of its relevance. It's your job to create its relevance, by informing them about the relevance of missing out on something that is being offered.”
― Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“In the game of change, everyone is a winner as long as he is in the race.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Open the Windows

“...what you win people with is what you generally win them to.”
― Bob Kauflin, Worship Matters: Leading Others to Encounter the Greatness of God

“I think most artists, especially those who deal with contemporary issues and mean it, look forward to the day when their work will no longer be relevant.”
― J. Andrew Schrecker

“The specialist
generalist emerges as the very best at
the very many fields they choose to
take. They deliver outstanding results
in everything they lay their hands on.
That makes them outstanding”
― Richard Mwebesa, Out of the Crowd

“Whatever you do,you have to be believable for this is the prerequisite of credibility and relevance.”
― Richard Mwebesa, Out of the Crowd

“The greatest evidence we have that God does matter is all of the time and energy we put into telling ourselves that He doesn’t.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Searching for relevance by giving up what you’re good at to find something good to do is a difficult decision.”
― Kevin Deeny

“The problem with religion right now. It hasn't evolved. And instead of being open and looking for ways to be relevant in today's world, it's gone all defensive and protective and it's regressed into lowest-common-denominator sound bites - and fundamentalism.”
― Raymond Khoury, The Sign

“God is not boxed with, nor is He boxed in: And ironic it is, how even what a culture may consider to be 'young and fly', to Him, might've already become 'safe and predictable'.”
― Criss Jami

“Conscious leadership occurs when leaders persistently revisit the set vision to verify their relevance and how far they still need to go for that vision to come to pass.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Effective Leadership Prototype for a Modern Day Leader

“If fire is like a coin then each philosopher carries a coin. And currency moves.”
― Monaristw

“For Small Owner Operated Businesses:
How to make money, support your family and your clients in a creative, caring way. You are relevant until you are not. Help where people aren’t being helpful. Look for where people aren’t being helped and help there.”
― Richie Norton

“Feeling insignificant is a feeling. If looking at stars makes you feel insignificant, look at ants.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Since intelligence is a demand-driven activity, like a service industry, it makes sense that while it may not form policy, it nevertheless should be in close touch with policymakers and political leaders to provide policy inputs when required, or to reorient priorities so that the intelligence provided remains relevant.”
― Vikram Sood, The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage

“To decrease the relevance of your superior or supervisor in the presence of his or her subordinates is equal to committing career suicide.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Leadership that knows how to galvanize, empower and maximize youth potential will remain relevant and on top.”
― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha