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Transformational Quotes
on Change Management
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1 “Slowness to change usually
means fear of the new.
– Philip Crosby

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Change before you have to.
– Jack Welch
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People don’t resist change.
They resist being changed!
– Peter Senge
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If you want to make enemies,
try to change something.
– Woodrow Wilson
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The key to change … is to let
go of fear.
– Rosanne Cash
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Our only security is our ability
to change.
– John Lilly
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If you don’t like something,
change it. If you can’t change
it, change your attitude.
– Maya Angelou
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The world hates change, yet
it is the only thing that has
brought progress.
– Charles Kettering
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Culture does not change because we
desire to change it. Culture changes
when the organization is transformed –
the culture reflects the realities of
people working together everyday.
– Frances Hesselbein
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The greatest danger in times
of turbulence is not the
turbulence – it is to act with
yesterday’s logic.
– Peter Drucker
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There is nothing more difficult to
take in hand, more perilous to
conduct, or more uncertain in its
success, than to take the lead in
the introduction of a new order of
things.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
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The rate of change is not going to
slow down anytime soon. If
anything, competition in most
industries will probably speed up
even more in the next few
decades.
– John P. Kotter
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Change is the law of life and
those who look only to the
past or present are certain to
miss the future.
– John F. Kennedy
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Change has a bad reputation in our
society. But it isn’t all bad – not by any
means. In fact, change is necessary in
life – to keep us moving, to keep us
growing, to keep us interested. Imagine
life without change. It will be static,
boring, dull.
– Dr. Dennis O’Grady
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Whosoever desires constant
success must change his
conduct with the times.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
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Your success in life isn’t based on
your ability to simply change. It is
based on your ability to change
faster than your competition,
customers and business.
– Mark Sanborn
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Change is hard because people
overestimate the value of what they
have and underestimate the value
of what they may gain by giving that
up.
– James Belasco and Ralph Stayer
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Change your thoughts and you
change your world.
– Norman Vincent Peale
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If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are
heading.
– Lao Tzu
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If you always do what you’ve
always done, you’ll always get
what you’ve always got.
– Anonymous
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