Bud Selig Quotes

Any of our businesses will not exist in the form that is today, will not exist in the same form one year later, two years later... We have to worry about the disruptions in the business models and the practices.

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

In any business, you have to evolve.

We started Kotter International to improve leaders' ability to deal with big, important transformations in organizations - and in their lives.

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

We have to look for opportunities if we're going to survive the next 50 years. We can't depend on what we have now.

Culture change means we will do things differently.

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.

Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.

In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

No matter what business you are in, there is change, and it's happening pretty quickly.

In a business, you've got to move on.

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

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

How you manage change can make all the difference.

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.

Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

Once an organization has a strong sense of mission, leaders can focus on trying new things.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

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

In our State the locomotive has waked up the sleeping energies of a great people, and is transforming wasted fields into blooming gardens, and arousing men and women from the dull and heavy sleep that dwells with satisfaction upon the past, into the bright intelligence that looks to a glorious future ….