Shirley Chisholm Quotes

I am The Catalyst of Change

If you want change, you have to offer change.

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

The spirit of the age is the very thing a great man changes.

Leaders are people who ‘walk ahead,’ people genuinely committed to deep changes, in themselves and in their organizations.

Very few people transform their country.

If you don’t actively reform, you will passively get reformed.

Some talk change. Others cause it..

If I had to probably define and characterize my job, and maybe the job of a CEO today in this global world, highly volatile, uncertain, and when you need to transform is to be the catalyst for change. That's probably the definition I would give to my job. I'm the catalyst.

No great leader in history fought to prevent change.

Nothing is the force that renovates the World.

The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision.

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

Discontent with the status quo is a great catalyst for vision.

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

Leaders make things better and that requires change.

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

I expect to be great. I expect to do what hasn't been done. I expect to provoke change.

Discontent is the catalyst for change.