John Redwood Quotes

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

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

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

The move to modernity has its risks but the greater risk is not moving at all.

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

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

Things which don't shift and grow are dead things.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

Change without continuity is chaos. Continuity without change is sloth-and very risky.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

When you are through changing, you are through.

Change brings opportunity.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

Every idea has its time.

Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

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.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.