Richard Rawlings Quotes

Wherever there is change, and wherever there is uncertainty, there is opportunity!

I believe it's less risky long-term to embrace change.

You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.

I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.

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

Don't be afraid to change the model.

You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living.

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

I'm not opposed to anything. If an opportunity comes across, I'll answer the door if it comes knocking.

You can never plan the future by the past.

I thought I never wanted to be on TV. I was dead wrong. I'm almost always dead wrong about the things I think I want, vs. when I just go with the flow, I'm always happy where I end up.

Our only security is our ability to change.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you.

Defending yesterday … is far more risky than making tomorrow.

To prepare for the future, we must be willing to test new concepts. This means we must acquire enough information to evaluate these concepts and not be like travelers in a foreign land who compare everything with their own hometown.

We have to dare to modernize to get room to maneuver for the priorities in the future.

Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.

We tell prospective hires, 'If you want an environment that is never going to change, don't come here. This is not the place for you.'

You embrace disruption. I think it's a good thing.

The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it, we must focus clearly, move faster, and continue to transform.