Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

I am very much a person who likes to change with the times. Education is what it is all about.

Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.

If you see that something is not working, you have to be willing to change course.

… embrace new ideas with energy!

Just because something is current doesn't mean it is new.

I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.

It's very important for a brand to have an identity through the years, but it's very important as well to evolve because times change so fast.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.

You are born modern, you do not become so.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.

In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.

Every time you're given a job, you're given a gift, and if you're flexible, you never know what's going to happen.

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

I learned how important timing is; having a really good idea five years ahead of its time is practically worthless.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late.