Change Management Quotes - Page 2

• Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Country, Trying

  32 Copy quote

• The key to change is to let go of fear.

  Rosanne Cash

  Inspirational, Change, Letting Go

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

  65 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Change, Clever, Christian Inspirational

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.135, The Minerva Group, Inc.

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Change, Success

  41 Copy quote

• We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

  R. D. Laing

  Change, Historical, Aging

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Years, Dysfunction, People

  Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back If You Lose It”, p.93, Profile Books

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself.

  Paul Hawken

  Change, Rivers, Environmental

  48 Copy quote

• Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

  Confucius

  Life, Change, Wise

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

  43 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  John Gibbons

  Change, Life Changing, Darkness Within

  11 Copy quote

• In fact, people themselves are responsible for making the status quo so resistant to change. We are trapped by our own behavior.

  Chris Argyris

  People, Facts, Management

  Chris Argyris (2010). “Organizational Traps: Leadership, Culture, Organizational Design”, p.10, OUP Oxford

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change

  Andy Grove

  Wind, Needs, Lessons

  11 Copy quote

• Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.111, Princeton University Press

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspirational, Change, Sweet

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.241, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• The great growling engine of change - technology.

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Technology, Growling

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In times of change, learners inherit the earth

  Erich Fromm

  Leadership, Times Have Changed, Earth

  20 Copy quote

• Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

  Eric Hoffer

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  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.

  47 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

  404 Copy quote

  Show source

• Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

  Joey Comeau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

  59 Copy quote

  Show source

• The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

  Alvin Toffler

  Science, Talking, Together

  29 Copy quote

• The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.

  Alvin Toffler

  Future, Order

  58 Copy quote

• People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Fear, Ignorance

  11 Copy quote

• I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Change, Education

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

  Harry S. Truman

  Change, Leadership, Men

  221 Copy quote

• If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

  Jack Welch

  Change, Leadership, Service Culture

  70 Copy quote

• People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Mistake

  44 Copy quote