Stephen Covey Quotes

The point is, you can't keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working.

We cannot continue doing the same thing and expect different results

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

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.

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

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

When you are through changing, you are through.

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.

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

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.

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

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results when, in fact, the results never change, is one definition of insanity. That goes for economics, too.

The future for us is not to go bigger but to go different.

The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.

What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.

When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.

A new future requires a new past.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

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

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

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.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same.

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