The second quote resonates well with the old Joel Spolsky blog post "Fire and Motion" [1]. Chasing new technologies is something your huge competitors want, you keep adopting XML databases, Corba (in the olden days), NoSQL just a few years ago, today it is Kafka, Crypto, AI, kirjillion of AWS products instead of working on your business.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/