Tom Vilsack Quotes

Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.

We have to open our minds and be ready for the changes.

Don't be afraid to change the model.

A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.

You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.

I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.

Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.

We tell prospective hires, 'If you want an environment that is never going to change, don't come here. This is not the place for you.'

Without remaining open to change , we can not remain open to life

All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.

You have to move forward. It's constantly changing. Everything changes and everything falls apart. You have to be nimble and on your toes and accessible to it all. Not everyone is on board with this.

I most resemble Benjamin Button. I evolve. I attach myself to the heartbeat of whatever is going on at that particular time, or I just chart a new path.

I think continuity is a good thing. But change is sometimes good, too.

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

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good.

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.

You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change.

To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.

I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world.

Life will not always change, so we must be willing to change.

You gotta turn with the times, or the times gonna turn on you.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.