Steve Forbert Quotes

For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.

A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.

You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve.

Entrepreneurs don't write a 100-page business plan and execute it one time; they're always experimenting and adapting based on what they learn.

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.

When you're first starting a show, any show, you learn what works and what doesn't work, and it's a kind of trial and error thing.

Sometimes you try different things when you play the best ones many times and you lost a few times, so you have to change sometimes.

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.

Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.

Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

In any business, you have to evolve.

Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes.

But usually I begin things through a drawing, so a lot of things are worked out in the drawing. But even then, I still allow for and want to make changes.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

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

We all have to change with the times... it keeps you younger; it's a new challenge.

Anyone who does anything creative is always gonna want to change.

People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.

Change brings opportunity.

How you manage change can make all the difference.

The necessary transformation of which I speak and of which my presidency will be a part is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities for all our people.

I think if I try to develop a formula, it ends up not working.