The Click Moment Quotes

“made perfect sense for Microsoft to partner with IBM. But great strategies are not based on what makes sense. Rather, they are based on what sets you apart and what you can reasonably defend. Those types of insights are almost never the result of a logical calculation. Instead, small, fortuitous observations can tip the balance.”
― Frans Johansson, The Click Moment: Seizing Opportunity in an Unpredictable World

“These three types of random moves together can explain, at least in part, why successful people tend to be personable, hardworking, and somewhat talented. You have an easier time creating click moments if you connect with more people, something that comes naturally to social creatures. You have a simpler time making a successful bet if you try a lot of them, and hardworking people tend to be productive. And you are more likely to get caught up in complex forces if you are out in the world doing stuff, which is easier if you know how to do something well.”
― Frans Johansson, The Click Moment: Seizing Opportunity in an Unpredictable World

“You need to do something different in order to become successful and rise above the avalanche of competitors. Success in the future defies logic and prediction because it is and must be random.”
― Frans Johansson, The Click Moment: Seizing Opportunity in an Unpredictable World

“This book is about two very simple but highly provocative ideas. The first one is this: success is random, far more random than we have come to believe. The second is that there are a number of specific actions that individuals and organizations can take to capture randomness and focus it in our favor.”
― Frans Johansson, The Click Moment: Seizing Opportunity in an Unpredictable World

“At every step of the way, windows of opportunity opened and closed, some of them worked and others did not. Th e hallmark of a great career is never the brilliance of the person behind it—it is the person’s tenacious and stubborn willingness to keep trying until the chips fall in his or her favor. Work hard, try different things, stay unique, but never believe that you can predict what will happen next. Instead, stay open to the possibilities and be prepared to switch plans if things don’t go your way. Sometimes life simply throws you a lot of curveballs. But it is from those curveballs that new and exciting opportunities will start to emerge. You never know what awaits you.”
― Frans Johansson, The Click Moment: Seizing Opportunity in an Unpredictable World

“Many of the lessons of this book are ones I had to discover through my own process of trial and error. Luck not only matters far more than we’d like to believe, but it is also our best chance to stand apart. As such, there is no one single master plan for success; every journey is unique.”
― Frans Johansson, The Click Moment: Seizing Opportunity in an Unpredictable World

“In 2011 Alabama passed a controversial law meant to curb illegal immigration and bolster the state’s economy. In 2012, the University of Alabama estimated that the law would eliminate upwards of 140,000 jobs, costing the state nearly $11 billion annually.”
― Frans Johansson, The Click Moment: Seizing Opportunity in an Unpredictable World

“Creating diverse teams is one of the best ways to encourage click moments.”
― Frans Johansson, The Click Moment: Seizing Opportunity in an Unpredictable World

“when the cost of believing a false pattern is real is less than the cost of believing the genuine pattern, natural selection will favor the false pattern.”
― Frans Johansson, The Click Moment: Seizing Opportunity in an Unpredictable World

“Or in the words of the famous British historian Arnold Toynbee, “History is just one damn thing after another.”
― Frans Johansson, The Click Moment: Seizing Opportunity in an Unpredictable World