Hans Vestberg Quotes

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

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

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.

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

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 art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

We are accustomed to think that some degree of stability is necessary to all real progress, all great development. But Japan has given proof irrefutable that enormous development is possible without any stability at all.

I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.

The most important thing is not stagnating, to keep improving.

You always have to keep evolving. You're always trying to improve. If you're at a standstill, you're falling behind.

We have to constantly be looking to improve.

If you just sit on what you've created, chances are you're not going to be around much longer.

When you think you're on top of your game, you've got to change it, and keep evolving and keep getting better.

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

You have to keep evolving.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

Change demands new learning.

I think change is always a good thing. Change keeps things moving.

Not every change is an improvement but every improvement is a change; you can't do anything BETTER unless you can manage to do it DIFFERENTLY, you've got to let yourself do better than other people!

In differentiation, not uniformity, lies the path of progress.

I hold that man in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

Reform is a verb …. The process of Reform is an ongoing, dynamic one, not a static process that has reformed and is finished becoming.

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

The world has changed a great deal, and our posture must change with it.