Gary Hamel Quotes

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

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.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

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 should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.

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.

Change before you have to.

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

One problem with Washington is that we are all historians and not futurists.

Defending yesterday … is far more risky than making tomorrow.

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

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

Change is an opportunity for everybody to think.

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

Wherever there is change, and wherever there is uncertainty, there is opportunity!

If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past.

It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

When I was going through those very fast changes, I think it was terribly important to me that I was seen to be inventive. I think that was the characteristic of my work that I wanted people to see.

I think continuity is a good thing. But change is sometimes good, too.

What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.

You must be on top of change or change will be on top of you.

In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.