John Kerry Quotes

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

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

We are accustomed to think that some degree of stability is necessary to all real progress, all great development. But Japan has given proof irrefutable that enormous development is possible without any stability at all.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

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.

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

The future is here.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

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

It’s important to embrace new technologies instead of fight them.

I am not afraid of new inventions or improvements, nor bigoted to the practices of our forefathers. It is that bigotry which keeps the Indians in a state of barbarism in the midst of the arts and would have kept us in the same state even now

Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade route wipes out the supremacy of old ports and brings prosperity to new ones. This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.

Please, join the modern world.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone, you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone, you leave it to a torrent of change.

Being an iconic food company can be both a blessing and a curse. It can be a curse if, amidst change, you maintain the status quo. It is a blessing if you leverage the change coupled with capability to seize new opportunities.

Most legacy companies get crushed - they get Blockbustered - because they are too afraid to walk away from the status quo, to embrace what the future is.

I am very fond of technology and like to keep pace with change.

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

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

No change, no chance.

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!