Bob Greene Quotes

Every market is in transition.

Changing course is never easy.

Getting to a place of comfort can be uncomfortable.

I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.

A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.

Change is never easy.

Change is such hard work.

I see publishers bemoaning their fate and saying that this is the end of publishing. No! Publishers will recreate themselves. Some of that comes from my experience as a print publisher.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Change is hard, but change is good.

You either innovate or you become defunct.

It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.

There's a little bit of pain in every transition, but we can't let that stop us from making it. If we did, we'd never make any progress at all.

Without disruptions, startups can't survive.

It's hard, transitioning from one thing to another. That's with anything you do.

Especially a new role, it takes a long time for me to settle into a role but it's exciting as well.

You have got to get to know people, and moving down to Liverpool from the North East was a huge change for me. But, at the same time, you have just got to get on with it, and that is part and parcel of being a footballer.

Coming off the bench was an adjustment for me.

It seems the world of book publishing is constantly changing. Whether it was the rise of chain stores or their decline, or the digital revolution... fortunately, we have been able not only to adapt but to thrive.

Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore.

Looking back, it wasn't easy when the news broke that I was leaving Dortmund, but that's behind me now.

No other technology company other than Apple has successfully transitioned their platform. It's almost never done, and it's way harder than you realise. This transition is where tech companies go to die.

The hardest part of change is going through the unknown.

People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real prediction is that is it's all changing. Amazon, Google and all of those things probably aren't the enemy. The enemy right now is simply refusing to understand that the world is changing.