Quotes About Change

In the '70s and '80s, what private equity did is it changed corporate America. It started holding companies accountable, and for the first time managers started thinking like owners.

The quality of ownership is not what it was in yesteryear.

If the people of America do not rise up, take ownership of our country, we're going to lose it forever.

At the end of the day, you can change coaches and managers and players, but if there's something intrinsic, something wrong, then you have to look at what the common denominator is, and, usually, you've got to look at the ownership because everything runs from there.

After 28 years of owning boats, I'm over it.

The future of work is changing. It's becoming a world where you are owning a lot about how you make your living.

The idea that owning a gun in America was an individual right only dates to the 1980s.

When politicians say your voice does not matter because the NRA owns them, we say, 'No more.'

No one listens to CDs anymore. Who even owns a CD? I used to bring my CDs to shows, and it was, like, a guarantee that everyone would buy one. Nope! Not anymore.

At the age of 14, I moved across town to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where science played a much larger role in the curriculum.

Growing, for leaders, is like oxygen to a deep sea diver. Without learning and growing, leaders die in terms of their effectiveness.

My own fear, if I have one myself, is a fear of being obsolete. This is a world that changes very fast, and one of the main human desires is to belong to, to be part of, something. It's probably one of our greatest needs next to oxygen.

Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.

I called my party the Green Oxygen party because Colombians were choking.

We nonchalantly expect that next year's smartphone will be faster and better than this year's, yet we struggle to imagine that society and our lives could progress at anything like the pace at which technology advances and we meekly accept it when things go backwards.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

I am very fond of technology and like to keep pace with change.

While I live a busy life, the pace ebbs and flows.

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

I feel things are changing now. Actresses are working at same pace even after getting married or having kids.

You have to grow faster than the pace of your company.

It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.

Yet in order to make sure the European social model keeps up with the pace of economic change that is now necessary, the EU must embrace a new approach to lawmaking.

I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.