Rick Pitino Quotes

In business, sometimes you have to change the CEO in order to change the direction of the company.

When I came into the CEO office, I basically changed the entire management team. We knew that we had to change the company, so we needed a new set of leaders.

So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We don't need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House.

If you go through some big corporate change, it's just not going to be the same. If we sold to Yahoo, they would have done something different; if you want to continue your vision of the company, then don't sell because there's inevitably going to be some change.

I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.

I think there's always an adjustment when somebody new is runnings things, from the top down.

Any time you have a change of leadership in an organization, everything kind of shifts.

Change the leader, change the organization.

As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good.

Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.

We'll look to the fall and if there is a new president and a new Senate that's part of a Congress willing to change, that's the next step.

We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.

The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You have a broken company, and you need to change it, to fix it.

I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.

Old-style management is irrelevant.

It appears that PepsiCo views structural change as a sign of weakness, an admission of failure, and an untenable break with past traditions.

Change in leadership does not only come in a pin stripe suit with a bald spot on its head.

We must not just change presidents. We must change direction.

Their methods of doing things are so very different from ours [Taft and his staff], and the people will welcome a change..

Parties are continually changing. The men of today give place to the men of tomorrow, and the idols which one set worship, the next destroy.

After a two-term presidency, many young voters seem to want someone who is radically different from, even the opposite of, the commander in chief to whom they have become accustomed. After all, a two-term president will have led their nation for a significant percentage of their lives. That's boring. Isn't it time for a transformation?

There definitely comes a time where a fresh pair of eyes and fresh leadership would be good, and the Conservative Party has got some great people coming up - the Theresa Mays, and the George Osbornes, and the Boris Johnsons.

CEOs can stay too long.

You always have years when you go through transition and the side needs to be rebuilt. Or you have changes in terms of managers.

When you have a new manager, and everything is new, it gives every team a lift.