Mark Parker Quotes

If you think you're doing everything right, then you have a tendency to stand pat.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Dogmatism makes for scientific anemia.

If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

Failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision

A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy.

Because we've always done it that way.' During my 12-year tenure as a special agent with the U.S. Secret Service, I heard those words all too often. The agency, in my experience, has an entrenched management culture resistant to change.

You know, you try to move the Brussels bureaucracy, and unless you have some capacity to really break it, you can't move it. It just sits there and stares at you.

The bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.

People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

One of the big problems entrepreneurs run into is they get too comfortable.

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.

Competence is the enemy of change!

We do things much the same way as we did 50, 60 or even 70 years ago. The answers may not be wrong, but we haven't experimented to see whether they are or not.

Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.