Smriti Irani Quotes

If you want change, you have to offer change.

Don't be content with things as they are.

They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

Things don’t always get better. Sometimes they get worse. The only way things will get better if people make them better.

The price of doing the same old thing is higher than the price of change.

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

In order for the Bureau to change we have to open ourselves to suggestions

Nothing is more certain than that improvement in human affairs is wholly the work of the uncontented characters.

Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.

By our own improvements we seem to have weakened the case for further change.

Novelty even is useful if a general opinion prevails that the old way is bad.

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.

Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement

Progress is never accepted by everybody.

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

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept..

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.

I know that without change there would be no progress, but I am not going to mistake mere change for progress.