Seth Godin Quotes

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

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

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

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

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.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Don't be content with things as they are.

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

Every single change is fought by those who would be affected by it.

In order for the Bureau to change we have to open ourselves to suggestions

Defending yesterday … is far more risky than making tomorrow.

We live in a quickly changing world, therefore we must foretell developments, and reforms should respond to these changes

The future belongs to those who change it.

The things that worked for us in the past wasn't going to work the same way going forward.

I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.

It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!

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.

Kings fear change. Leaders crave it.

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.

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

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

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

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.