adapt or die
Change or perish
Adapt or die expresses the principle that survival requires changing with circumstances.
The phrase comes from evolutionary biology—species that fail to adapt to environmental changes go extinct—but applies broadly to business, technology, and personal growth: In this industry, it's adapt or die.
The bluntness emphasizes that adaptation isn't optional.
- surviveContinue to exist
- survival of the fittestAdaptive advantage perpetuates species
- evolveChange gradually over time
- changeTo make different
- transformChange completely in form
sink or swim · struggle · resilience · extinction · natural selection · overcome · fight or flight · flexibility · harsh · pivot · reinvent · predator · prey · dog eat dog · wilderness · fittest · competition · law of the jungle
- adaptabilityflexibility, resilience, adaptability, pliability, malleable
- changechange, flux, transformation, metamorphosis, alteration
- versatilityversatile, flexible, all-purpose, multipurpose, flexibility
adapt or diestay the course
Continue despite difficulties
stand firm · hold the line · rigidity · inflexibility · entrenchment
adapt or diepermanence
Quality of lasting indefinitely
constancy · steadfastness · this too shall pass · eternal truths · immutability
adapt, adapts, adapted, adapting, adaptable, adaptation, adaptations, adaptive, adaptively