Warren Buffett Quotes

I think it's extremely important to think of your company as a series of chapters.

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying to provoke positive change is a principle we've embedded across the Virgin family for more than four decades.

An organization needs to be constantly refreshed.

I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies.

Business comes and goes and we make a strategic decision that could lead you to whole new place.

The more you drive positive change, the more enhanced your business model.

I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to grow at all times.

It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.

Any company has got to reinvent itself again and again.

I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.

The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.

Change is not an event, it's a process.

We started Kotter International to improve leaders' ability to deal with big, important transformations in organizations - and in their lives.

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.

Innovation and best practices can be sown throughout an organization - but only when they fall on fertile ground.

For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.

In any business that grows big on one business model, transitions can throw everything in the air.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.

Sometimes, in order to be successful, a business must reset.

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

As a first-time CEO, I wasn't sure if I would scale to run IronPort long-term. But I wanted a legitimate shot at it.

Reform is a verb …. The process of Reform is an ongoing, dynamic one, not a static process that has reformed and is finished becoming.

We’ve already decided to change. The question is: In which direction do we change, and from where do we start?