Kings fear change. Leaders crave it.

Seth Godin

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Denis Waitley

De toekomst is niet iets om te voorspellen, maar om te bewerkstellingen.

Don Tapscott

Simple kindness to one's self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all.

David R. Hawkins

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

Rupert Murdoch

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Winston Churchill

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope for advance.

Orville Wright

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

William Edwards Deming

Success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to changes as they occur.

Jack Welch

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Steve Jobs

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Bertolt Brecht

Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat."

Caroline Schoeder

People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Apple

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

Deepak Chopra

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience (vergankelijkheid), we suffer.

Shunryu Suzuki

Given the likely shape of these ever-shifting landscapes, the evolutionary mix of small steps and occasional wold gambles is the best possible way to search for solutions.

Tim Harford

Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

Seth Godin

Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.

Mark Pincus

When you create awareness you create change

Lolly Daskal

Are you too busy for improvement? Frequently, I am rebuffed by people who say they are too busy and have no time for such activities. I make it a point to respond by telling people, look, you’ll stop being busy either when you die or when the company goes bankrupt.

Shigeo Shingo

Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before.

Shigeo Shingo

A relentless barrage of “why’s” is the best way to prepare your mind to pierce the clouded veil of thinking caused by the status quo.  Use it often.

Shigeo Shingo

Nothing is permanent but change.

Heraclitus

The key to why things change is the key to everything.

James Burke

Each organisation has its own psychology, in addition to the psychology of the individuals within the organisation.

Eliyahu M Goldratt

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

Robert L Stevenson

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are so confident while the intelligent are full of doubt

Bertrand Russell

Analythical thought doesn’t produce understanding, it produces knowledge. The product of analysis is the knowledge about how things work, not why they work the way they do. System thinking produces understanding.

Russel Ackoff

Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you’ve been passed by.

Clayton Christensen

Vision driven change largely fails. Only when a clear danger or threat is present large enterprises are able to change.

John Hagel

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao-tzu

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Jim Rohn

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

It is generally much easier to kill an organization than change it substantially.

Kevin Kelly

Only that which is temporary endures.

French proverb

Mensen zijn gewoontedieren, veranderingen kosten energie, die willen we niet verspillen aan dingen waarvan we niet weten of ze wel goed uitpakken.

Carsten de Dreu

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Lucille Ball

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Charles F. Kettering

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

John F Kennedy

People don't resist change. They resist being changed!

Peter Senge

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Lao Tzu 

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.

Winston Churchill

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

Anthony J. D’Angelo

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.

Barack Obama 

The most effective way to manage change is to create it.

Peter Drucker 

To do the same thing over and over and to expect that the results will change, is insanity

Albert Einstein

The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Stephen Covey

The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.

John Kotter