Raghuram Rajan Quotes

Today, you expand or you are expendable.

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.

Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up.

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be left behind.

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

You either grow with this sport, or you get left behind. It's sad, but it is what it is. You gotta keep up with this sport.

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

To stand still is to fall behind.

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

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

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

When you are through changing, you are through.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

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

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

It's always imperative to improve and to remain dynamic - or you'll become lunch, as opposed to serving it.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

For me, the most fun is change or growth. There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

Nothing is more terrifying to me, really, than the status quo. I'll make mistakes before I keep doing something the same way.

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

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.

What's dangerous is not to evolve.