Marshall McLuhan Quotes

If you don't hop aboard the change train, you're gonna get derailed.

All innovation is about letting go, saying goodbye to things to create space for the new.

You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.

In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday.

A leader who loves status quo soon becomes a follower.

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.

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

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.

Why should we hesitate to toss the old views overboard.

Don't protect your past. Don't protect your products.

Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.

I'm always moving forward and trying new things.

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

Every minute spent worrying about 'the way things were' is a moment stolen from creating 'the way things can be'

One must not hesitate to innovate and change with the times. The leader who stands still is not progressing, and he will not remain a leader for long.

We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.

Don't be afraid to change the model.

Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.

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 think continuity is a good thing. But change is sometimes good, too.

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

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.