James C. Collins Quotes

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

I hold that man in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

When you think you're on top of your game, you've got to change it, and keep evolving and keep getting better.

I'm always moving forward and trying new things.

You have to keep evolving.

To continue in one path is to go backward.

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up.

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.

Everything must change, everything must move forward.

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.

I'm always driven to keep doing something different and better.

I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

Don't be content with things as they are.

The world has changed a great deal, and our posture must change with it.

Progress knows nothing of fixity. It cannot be pressed into a definite mould…. Progress is ever renewing, ever becoming, ever changing--never is it within the law.

The reformer does not want to move left; he wants to move forward.

We live in a quickly changing world, therefore we must foretell developments, and reforms should respond to these changes

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