In this world things can change on a dime. You could lose a key client at any moment, a decade’s long venture can go belly up overnight, and the markets can crash in the blink of an eye. Tragedy is always looming, and when it strikes, as it always does, we can do one of two things, quit or pivot.

This post is meant to encourage you to do the latter. As such, we’ve rounded up the most inspirational quotes we could find about pivoting. So, if challenges have befallen you, use these quotes to give you the clarity and encouragement you’ll need to choose whether or not you should pivot during your trying times.

BEST PIVOT QUOTES

1. “A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision.” – Eric Ries

2. “Embrace failure. Missteps and roadblocks are inevitable but are ultimately an opportunity to learn, pivot, and go after your goals with new perspective.” – Jenny Fleiss

3. “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” – Dalai Lama

4. “Pivoting is not a big bang moment — its just a thing you do when you iterate on ideas — its a lightweight thing.” – Dalton Caldwell

5. “When we are no longer able to change the situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Vicktor Frankl

6. “Persist, pivot, or concede. It’s up to us, our choice every time.” – Matthew McConaughey

7. “I realized maybe Henry Ford was right, or whoever said it… ‘whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.’ It doesn’t necessarily follow that you can if you think you can. But it almost always definitely follows that you can’t if you think you can’t.” – Stewart Butterfield

8. “Be adaptable and willing to pivot when necessary, flexibility is key to success.” – Anonymous

9. “There’s a fine line between heroic persistence and foolish stubbornness. Sometimes the best kind of grit is gritting our teeth and turning around” – Adam Grant

10. “Don’t panic, pivot.” – Cheryl Amyx

11. “Careers are a jungle gym not a ladder.” – Sheryl Sandberg

12. “Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.” – Jessica Hagedorn

13. “Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process, but the beginning of the next leg of your journey.” – Jay Samit

14. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

15. “Adaptability is life’s secret sauce. Embrace change. Learn to pivot. Make resiliency your superpower.” – Anonymous

16. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

17. “Pivots are a permanent fact of life for any growing business. Even after a company achieves initial success, it must continue to pivot.” – Eric Ries

18. “A career pivot is methodically shifting in a new direction by doubling down on what’s already working.” – Jenny Blake

19. “The secret of life is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.” – Luigi Priandello

20. “We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.” – Dolly Parton

21. “Don’t e afraid to pivot; sometimes the detour leads to the greatest discoveries.” – Anonymous

22. “Do not judge me by my success. Judge me by how many times I fell down and got back
up again.” – Nelson Mandela

23. “It’s not how we make mistakes, but how we correct them that defines us.” – Rachel Wolchin

24. “The life in front of you is way more important than the life behind you.” – Joel Olsteen

25. “You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you can’t, you do the next best thing.  You back up but you don’t give up.” – Chuck Yeager

Final Thoughts

Great job making it to the end of these pivot quotes! We hope they provided you with a bit of encouragement and clarity about pivoting, whether it be for your personal or processional life or in your business.

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