Intellect, Strength, Adaptation, Survival
“According to Darwin’s Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.”
References
Megginson, 'Lessons from Europe for American Business', Southwestern Social Science Quarterly (1963) 44(1): 3-13, at p. 4.
(A similar version is in Megginson's article 'Key to Competition is Management', Petroleum Management (1964) 36(1): 91-95.)