Quotes About Complacency

Every successful company must be on guard against the threat of complacency. You have to create a sense of urgency every day in every thing you do.

Prosperity can be very dangerous for any company. It can lead you to believe that you've cracked the code, or "figured this business out," or that you "know how this business works." No. You know how it used to work. To stop and relax for more than a brief moment is one of the most dangerous things you can do in a marketplace that changes constantly. This doesn't mean that you should run scared or operate your business in a panic mode.

Changing just for the sake of changing can be a more dangerous trap than being stuck in complacency. The graveyard of failed businesses is full of companies that were willing to try anything, whether it made sense or not, just so they could feel that they were "riding the waves of change.

Don't fall into a complacency trap. It doesn't take any more effort to stay filled with faith than it takes to develop a negative attitude. Dare to step out of your comfort zone today. God has so much more in store. Keep pursuing and keep believing.

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.

The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

Unfortunately grown-ups don't behave any better. Especially when they have nothing else to do or are having a hard time – or, sometimes, when they just think they are having a hard time. They band together with other real or supposed companions in misfortune and take to the streets, marching in step and parroting mindless slogans, filled with their own importance.

And so with the mouldy artificial fruit, so with the bath water that began to stink, so with the defective rhymes that the poetry machine had taken to emit. All were bitterly complained of at first, and then acquiesced in and forgotten. Things went from bad to worse unchallenged. It was otherwise with the failure of the sleeping apparatus. That was a more serious stoppage.

Success! Success! The enemy of progress!

the masters, robed, gowned, their attitudes varying from indulgent ennui to virtual coma.

If you're too lazy to start anything, you may get a reputation for patience.

Woe to them that are at ease in Zion.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked.

So we teach them how to sit still, how to obey bells, how to make insipid clichés pass for thought, how to be "subversive" in trivial and uniform ways, how to think "outside the box" of tradition and wisdom and into the stainless steel cage of the politically "correct," how to extend the political pinky while sipping the political tea.

A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.

I feel like, in Boston, I was a little too complacent. I could get on stage when I wanted. I didn't feel like I was pushing myself. I could get work in New England and not have to travel too much.

My 'if it's not broken, don't fix it' type attitude might have held me back and made me complacent.

It is foolish for anyone to be complacent.

It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.

It is queer the fantastic things that quite good people will do in order to keep up their appearance of calm pococurantism.

Granpa said he seen that and so he knowed. Granpa said ye had to understand. But most people didn't want to-it was too much trouble-so they used words to cover their own laziness and called other folks shiftless.

Only fools and the dead are content.