Charles Bukowski Quotes

You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

Change is not always progress.

The new always competes with the old and destroys it. Men who build railroads destroy stage coach lines.

Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

To innovate is not to reform.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

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

A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.

The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough.

Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.