Paulo Coelho Quotes

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

To innovate is not to reform.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'

It's very difficult to innovate without requiring people to do something different. And whenever you require people to do something different, you're talking about change.

Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.

If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

Disrupt, and you will be saved.

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.

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself.

The new is threatening to those who have mastered the old.

It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.

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

No matter what business you are in, there is change, and it's happening pretty quickly.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

Even IBM can't stand in the way of progress... for more than a decade.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.