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Change quotes
Nothing is permanent but change
/ Heraclitus (500 BC)

Man has never discovered perpetual motion, but he is close to perpetual commotion
/ Anon

Change is the law of life. And those who look on1y to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
/ John F. Kennedy

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep. A stable, changeless state, were cause indeed to weep.
/ William Cullen

We must be the changes we want to see in the world.
/ Gandhi

There is no permanent solution.
/ Price Pritchett

The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy.
/ Abraham Cowley

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
/ L. Ron Hubbard

There are two types of companies in America. Those that are speeding towards a cliff and know it and those that are speeding towards a cliff....
/ Jack Welch

Nothing characterises the successful organisation so much as its willingness to abandon what has long been successful.
/ Unattributed

.... grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
/ Reinhold Niebuhr

If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
/ Sir Isaac Newton

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on unreasonable man
/ George Bernard Shaw

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.
/ Sir John Clapham

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
/ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The energy and ingenuity of its people are a nation's most important resource.
/ David Rockerfeller

Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my I people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.
/ Andrew Carnegie

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
/ General George Patton

Genuine empowerment is not the things you do to or for people; it's the impediments you take away...
/ Terry Neill

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their min d s are incompetents in asylums, who can't, and those in cemeteries.
/ Everett M. Dirksen

Why do I keep changing my plans: because it's usually easier than changing other people's plans.
/ Ashleigh Brilliant

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

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
/ Tenessee Williams

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
/ Lewis Carroll

The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
/ Winston Churchill describing the qualifications desirable in a prospective politician

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
/ Henry Kissinger

We're in the 800th lifetime since the dawn of man. In the first 650, people couldn't talk. Only in the last 50-60 have we had the printed word. 1950-2010 is the first in which over half of the information that we will need has been invented during.
/ Alvin Toffler

If the automobile had made the same advances in cost and performance as computers have since 1950, a car today would cost 1/100th of a cent and travel at the speed of light.
/ Ray Kurzwell

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
/ Albert Einstein

The smart person solves problems, the genius avoids them.
/ Ernst Schumacher

Isn't there some way to get the wisdom of hindsight in advance?
/ Ashleigh Brilliant

A man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
/ Samuel Johnson

It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.
/ Unattributed

Tis not knowing much, but what is useful, that makes a wise man.
/ Thomas Fuller

Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.
/ A.A. Milne

Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.
/ Panchatantra (5th Century)

Think about the amount of knowledge held within any organisation ... Think about organisational history - the problems solved, the lessons learned. Then think about continual quality and customer service problems - how bad we are at remembering and communicating lessons. If we could find a way to capture organisational learning structure it and give it to people when they really need it - then we d have created the learning organisation and the opposition would be out of sight.
/ John M. O'Brien

Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.
/ Max Lerner

"The Manager administers, the Leader innovates, The Manager maintains, the Leader develops, The Manager relies on systems, the Leader relies on people, The Manager counts on controls, the Leader counts on trust, The Manager does things right, the Leader does the right thing."
/ Fortune Magazine

The price of greatness is responsibility.
/ Winston Churchill

Please don 't enlighten me; it 's hard enough without knowing who I am or where I 'm going.
/ Asleigh Brilliant

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
/ Mark Twain

A good way to please people is to do something they don't like and then stop!
/ Asleigh Brilliant

Team Effort - a lot of people doing what I say.
/ Anon.

Two stonecutters were asked what they were doing. The first said, I'm cutting this stone into blocks. The second replied, I'm on team that's building a cathedral.
/ Anon

The Three "R's" of Customer Loyalty - Revenue, Retention and Referrals.
/ Anon

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
/ Theodore Roosevelt

Rule of failure: If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
/ Anon

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
/ Winston Churchill

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
/ Thomas Jefferson

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
/ John Galsworthy

The mark of a true MBA is that he is often wrong but seldom in doubt
/ Robert Buzzell

If you don t agree with me, it means you haven't been listening
/ Sam Markewich

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
/ John Wooden

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining
/ John F.Kennedy

Give them numbers or give them dates - but, for God's sake, never give them both!
/ Anon

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
/ Margaret Thatcher

To leave footprints in the sands of time, you have to keep on the move.
/ Anon

We've been through so much together and most of it was your fault.
/ Ashleigh Brilliant

Lack of opportunity is often nothing more than lack of purpose or direction.
/ Anon

Democracy is the worst system ever invented - except for all the rest.
/ Winston Churchill

Every generation needs a new revolution.
/ Thomas Jefferson

The release of Atomic Power has changed everything except our way of thinking, and thus we are being driven unarmed towards a catastrophe...
/ Albert Einstein

Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
/ Countgaleazzo Ciano

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
/ Will Rogers

History will be kind to me because I intend to write it.
/ Winston Churchill

It s not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
/ Vince Lombardi

When leading the change process it is critical to reward the champions, carry the wounded and shoot the dissenters.
/ Adapted from Michael Hammer

Three attributes of a successful businessman; honesty, sincerity and integrity. If you can fake those, you can do anything
/ Groucho Marx

Change is a door that you can only open from the inside.
/ Anon

It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful or success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order or things.
/ Niccolo Machiavelli

Kidney Stone Theory of Management - it hurts like hell now, but it too will pass.
/ Michael Hammer

The very least people who can't communicate should do is shut up!
/ Tom Laerher

Culture - a medium in which you grow things
/ Chris Parker

Apostles - a customer so satisfied that they convert the uninitiated to a product or service. Scott D. Cook

Challenges can be a stepping stones or stumbling blocks. It's just a matter of how you view them.
/ Unattributed

If you start by believing in little impossibilities, you can train yourself to believe in big ones.
/ Ashleigh Brilliant

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him in the image of a cathedral.
/ Antoine de Saint - Exupery

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
/ Oscar Wilde

An American Astronaut about to blast off was asked by a reporter whether he was nervous and he said. There are a million parts in the spacecraft and if any part fails I can be in deep trouble. Of course I am nervous, especially knowing that each one of these parts was procured from the lowest bidder.
/ Unattributed

A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies.
/ Oscar Wilde

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
/ Dean Acheson

Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing.
/ Lewis Carroll

People work best in a crisis. If there is no crisis, CREATE ONE
/ Bill Bramer

If you can't change the people change the people.
/ Bill Bramer

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
/ Mark Twain

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.... then give up. There's no use being a damn fool about it.
/ W.C. Fields

Never tell a lie... unless lying is one of your strong points.
/ George Washington Plunkett

Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.
/ Unattributed

Promises. Keep them. If asked when you can deliver something, ask for time to think. Build in a margin of safety. Name a date. Then deliver it earlier than you promised.
/ Unattributed

The world is divided into two classes of people: the few people who make good on their promises (even if they don't promise as much) and the many who don't. Get in column A and stay there. You'll be very valuable wherever you are.
/ Robert Townsend

Anyone can be wrong occasionally, but only exceptional people make an entire career of it.
/ Ashleigh Brilliant

All I want is a warm bed, a kind word and unlimited power.
/ Ashleigh Brilliant

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
/ James B. Conant

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
/ Samuel Johnson

The worse enemy of good is better
/ Voltaire

Few people do business well who do nothing else.
/ Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and unpalatable.
/ John Kenneth Galbraith

Statistically, the odds against reality are overwhelming; what does this say about statistics?
/ Ashleigh Brilliant

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
/ Maya Angelou

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
/ Lewis Carroll

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
/ Marcel Proust

Any subject domain you try and learn today I it's pretty imperfect. You want to get a whole picture - take art. You want to go to a single museum, you don't really have a sense of what was hard, who else was doing what, did this guy's life have a very interesting story, who is in this painting. It you had this information it would engage you - you'd want to tell your friends.
/ Bill Gates

The absurd man is he who never changes.
/ Auguste Barthelemy (1830)

When you're through changing, you're through.
/ Bruce Barton

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
/ Emerson (1849)