Peter Drucker Quotes

The world is changing and people don't like change.

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

Every change is being forced upon us.

When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.

Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?

Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.

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

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

Most want progress but hardly anybody wants change. Change is almost always a little traumatic.

Trust me, you can't change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It's impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.

Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature?

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.

Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

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

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

While victims condemn change, leaders grow inspired by change.

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.

Change is the only constant, and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility.

The one thing I do know is change is coming so quickly