Business Change Quotes

• 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

  Team, Technology, Inability

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

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

  Richard Branson

  Change, Stories, Revision

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from Jul 22, 2015

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

  Warren G. Bennis

  Life Changing, Inevitable, Change Is Inevitable

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

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• 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

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

  Marian Diamond

  Change, Workout, Emotional

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

  Rupert Murdoch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying to provoke positive change is a principle we've embedded across the Virgin family for more than four decades.

  Richard Branson

  Change, Trying, Stories

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Change, Powerful

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

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Business, Ideas

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

  Steve Jobs

  Life Lesson, Moving, Simple

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• 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

  Should, Willing, Willing To Change

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

  Rosanne Cash

  Inspirational, Change, Letting Go

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

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

  Andy Warhol

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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

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

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Change, Kindness

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• There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.21, FastPencil Inc

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• Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Life Changing, Hard Work

  "Steve Jobs quotes: the man in his own words", www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2011.

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Change, Eggs, Ordinary

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

  Steve Jobs

  Work, Believe, Loving What You Do

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

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

  John Gibbons

  Change, Life Changing, Darkness Within

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• 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

  Change, Inspiring, Life Changing

  "The 13 Most Memorable Quotes From Steve Jobs" by Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. October 5, 2011.

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