John Stockton Quotes

The establishment can't change. It can't give people anything different; it can't make the turn.

Sometimes success can bring complacency.

At a big company, often size turns into constipation; it fogs the lens about what's really happening. Sometimes with size and success comes the notion that since we've done things to be successful, we have the formula and can institutionalize it. That can be death.

Competence is the enemy of change!

The greatest detriment to tomorrow's success, is today's success.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

The danger to the state lies not in the intrusion of new thought but in the effort to stubbornly maintain the old state thought.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

Failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision

The most important actors of a scenario never ask for that scenario to be changed; neither do they seek developments that would end their roles.

Success is seductive. It can make one complacent and inefficient and stale.

I used to say no to almost everything because I thought, 'I've got enough dough, I know what I want to do, and I know what I'm capable of.'

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

With success comes complacency if you let it happen. It is human nature; there is that urge to think about how well you have done.

One of the biggest threats to success is success itself. When you get a little bit ahead, it's all too easy to become complacent and to quickly lose what you have gained.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

When you're successful for so many years, the scariest part is that you're getting too comfortable because you've had so much success.

Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.