Craig Zadan Quotes

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

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.

I'm not going to be the one who turns out the last lights of the last conglomerate. So we need to reinvent ourselves all the time.

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

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

I think it is important to grow. Your fans are growing up with you whether you like it or not. You have to keep it fresh and exciting for them. You have to bring something new to the table each time.

Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.

If you don't change and mix things up, you're going to get run over. One of the things we preach is change, change, change.

Innovation means change.

Since I became CEO, 87 percent of the companies in the Fortune 500 are off the list. What that says is that companies that don't reinvent themselves will be left behind. I also think that's true of people. And I think it's true of countries.

Innovation is kind of a sub-piece of change.

In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'

The things that worked for us in the past wasn't going to work the same way going forward.

Progress often masquerades as trouble.

Progress only happens with change, and people love something different.

Every 10 years the game changes.

If you just sit on what you've created, chances are you're not going to be around much longer.

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.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

It is commonly believed that innovations create changes - but few ever do. Successful innovations exploit changes that have already happened.

One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.