Change Quotes

After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

To ask for overt renunciation of a cherished doctrine is to expect too much of human nature. Men do not repudiate the doctrines and dogma to which they have sworn their loyalty. Instead they rationalize, revise, and reinterpret them to meet new needs and new circumstances, all the while protesting that their heresy is the […]

Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.

Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.

Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.

If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Entrepreneurs see change as the norm and as healthy. Usually they do not bring about the change themselves. The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as opportunity.

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

Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes – it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.