Ken Blanchard Quotes

It's good to try and learn how to adapt.

In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.

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

Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

One of the most difficult things in life for any individual or business is to accept and adopt change.

While victims condemn change, leaders grow inspired by change.

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.

How you manage change can make all the difference.

We have to learn to adapt to people and changes. Change is good.

You can't stay who you are... Things change and you have to be able to adapt.

I have to do a better job of learning how to adjust.

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

Growth is the process of responding positively 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?

The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.

Those who will not face improvements because they are changes, will face changes that are not improvements.

Every change is being forced upon us.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter.

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.

One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

Sometimes you have to change. You know change is always good.

Don't fear change. It's always for the best.