Dave Mustaine Quotes

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

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

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.

There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Sometimes we get comfortable with the status quo, even when the status quo isn’t any good.

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

I don't want to be complacent.

Never get comfortable.

If you think you're doing everything right, then you have a tendency to stand pat.

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'

The only menace is inertia.

Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

How will the world change if we do not question it?

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

If you are content with yourself, you'll stop taking those little steps forward and begin taking big steps backward.

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

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

Progress is a comfortable disease.

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

A leader who loves status quo soon becomes a follower.

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