Business Change Quotes:

The business changes every day, and you should be willing to change with it. You have to be willing to change with it.

- Josh Barnett

topic: Should, Business Change, Willing, Willing To Change

The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.

- Kent Beck

source: Kent Beck (2000). “Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change”, p.28, Addison-Wesley Professional

topic: Team, Technology, Inability, Team Member, Business Change

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.

- Richard Branson

source: FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Jul 22, 2015

topic: Change, Stories, Revision, Success Stories, Adapting

In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.

- Warren G. Bennis

topic: Life Changing, Inevitable, Change Is Inevitable, Business Change

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

- Jack Welch

source: "Jack Welch & The G.E. Way: Management Insights and Leadership". Book by Robert Slater, 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Managing Change, Inspiring Business

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Managing Change, Times Have Changed

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

topic: Inspirational, Change, Wisdom, Social Development, Social Good

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

- Confucius

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Clever, Inspirational Goal Setting, Adjustment

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

- Marian Diamond

topic: Change, Workout, Emotional, Young Entrepreneurs, Disruption

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

- Rupert Murdoch

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Catalyst For Change, Innovation And Business

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Change, Powerful, Times Have Changed, Time And Change

There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to execute them.

- Seth Godin

topic: Business, Ideas, Missing, Business Change

Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Life Lesson, Moving, Simple, Complex Systems, Success Mantra

The key to change is to let go of fear.

- Rosanne Cash

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Change, Letting Go, Managing Change, Some People Never Change

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

- Andy Warhol

source: Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Managing Change, Times Have Changed

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

- John C. Maxwell

source: "Leadership 101: 3 Key Lessons on Advancing Racial Equity" by Dr. Artika R. Tyner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball, Young Entrepreneurs, True Leader

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Managing Change, Inspirational Change

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

- Margaret Mead

topic: Inspirational, Change, Kindness, Some People Never Change, Embrace Change

It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new. Their support is lukewarm ... partly because men are generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless they have tested them by experience.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

topic: Change, Men, Order, Incredulity, Managing Change

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspiring, Moving, Inspiration, Inspiring Change, Design Work

You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Eggs, Ordinary, Goes On, Learn To Fly, Why Change

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Way In Life

If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.

- John Gibbons

topic: Change, Life Changing, Darkness Within, Managing Change, Some People Never Change

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.

topic: Inspirational, Change, Happiness, Making A Difference In The World, Times Have Changed

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Making A Difference In The World, Innovation Inspiration

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Life, Change, Wisdom, Learn To Fly, Jolly

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

- Eric Hoffer

source: Speech on the Occasion of the Opening of the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference by Adrienne Clarkson in Winnipeg, archive.gg.ca. May 07, 2004.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Managing Change, Times Have Changed

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Inner Voice, Job Growth

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Change, Success, Managing Change, Some People Never Change

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

source: Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Social Democracy, Social Entrepreneurship

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Creativity, People, Unique Experiences, Creative People

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Heart, Follow Your Heart, Intuition, Inner Voice, Business Life

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

- Norman Vincent Peale

source: Norman Vincent Peale (1970). “Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Best Success, Managing Change

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Make Up Your Mind, Inspirational Addiction Recovery

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Important Work, Social Good

When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Creativity, People, Creative, Unique Experiences, Creative People

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Social Power, Social Studies

Believe that things will work out... follow your intuition and curiosity... trust your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path... You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future... The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it... Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Believe, Heart, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

- Belva Davis

source: Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Positive, Dream, Achieve, Managing Change, Great Minds

Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Change, Work, Life Changing, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

In times of change, learners inherit the earth

- Erich Fromm

topic: Leadership, Times Have Changed, Earth, Managing Change, Change Management

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Dream, Best Success, Managing Change

Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness.

- Kalidasa

topic: Dream, Yesterday, Today, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Drug Recovery