Quotes About Change

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

Liberty is always unfinished business

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

Business model innovation is constant in this economy. You start with a vision of a platform. For a while, you think there's a line of sight, and then it's gone. There's suddenly a new angle.

Every adviser told me to study the company, learn the business for the first 90 days and don't make any decisions. I couldn't resist seeing broken things and immediately taking action.

'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.

Nostalgia isn't a business model

I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

Doing more with less, is a crucial principle to learn; especially if you're going to be in business in this rapidly changing world.

If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.

I never wanted to be a businessman, I just wanted to change the world

People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

There are unlimited opportunities for display advertising. In fact, we're in the process of massive change in the display industry - how it's bought, how it's sold, and how it's targeted.

If you're not on the right path, get off it.

Research can trap you into the past.

The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up.

Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.

Anything can change in show business, you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

There's a Harvard Business School thing that says, 'Every 10 years you should replant yourself,' and the only way to keep young is to learn new things and keep curious.