Change Management Quotes - Page 3

• It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Change, Meaningful, Top Management

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• Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Time, Stress

  1970 Future Shock.

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Change, Suffering, Management

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• All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

  Anatole France

  Life, Change, People Changing

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.186, Anatole France

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• I see light at the end of the tunnel.

  Walt Whitman Rostow

  Positive, Humor, Vegas

  Walt Whitman Rostow (1955). “Russia and China Under Communism”

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• Be the change you want to see in your networks

  James H. Fowler

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Giving, Serenity, Grace

  "Serenity Prayer". Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr, 1951.

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• Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up.

  Andy Law

  Change, Giving Up, Forever

  Andy Law (1999). “Creative Company: How St. Luke's Became "the Ad Agency to End All Ad Agencies"”, Wiley

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• All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Change, Success, Creativity

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

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• You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

  Denis Waitley

  Change, Life Changing, Growth

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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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• If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.483, Princeton University Press

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• If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

  Phil Crosby

  Change, Preparation, World

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• In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.

  Harry S. Truman

  Change, Leadership, Future Leaders

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  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

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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

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• Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Change, Success, Philosophical

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• Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

  Phil Crosby

  Change, Fear, Mean

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  Change your thoughts and you change your world.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

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• In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

  J. Paul Getty

  Change, Worst Enemy, Insightful

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• We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Change, Accepting

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.240, Psychology Press

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• Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday.

  Peter Drucker

  Technology, Opportunity, Yesterday

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.67, Routledge

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• Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Life Changing, Process

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

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