Max de Pree Quotes

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

I know that without change there would be no progress, but I am not going to mistake mere change for progress.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

There is no new world that you make without the old world.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

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

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

When you are through changing, you are through.

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

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

All progress is experimental.

Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

Change is not always progress.

The price of doing the same old thing is higher than the price of change.

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

Tradition, by its very nature, includes continuous change.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Progress knows nothing of fixity. It cannot be pressed into a definite mould…. Progress is ever renewing, ever becoming, ever changing--never is it within the law.

Change shall be without hurry, but without pause.