Ursula Burns Quotes

The world is changing, but so is Microsoft.

What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.

When I look at efforts to create change in big companies over the past 10 years, I have to say that there's enough evidence of success to say that change is possible - and enough evidence of failure to say that it isn't likely. Both of those lessons are important.

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

Well, if you look back, in almost two and a half years, the biggest change probably was in late 2000 when we decided to totally change the CA business model.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often the case. Look at Kodak: it was the dominant imaging company in the world. They did fabulously during the great depression, but then wiped out the shareholders because of technological change.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

The business changes, and we don't all have to like the change, but it's, ultimately, the business is changed. But, that being said, I don't like it, and I'll tell you why. Because without the new school that we have right now, or without old school, there would be none of this new school, so it started somewhere, right?

Companies can change. Culture can change.

The world is changing and people don't like change.

We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

The whole world turns upside down in ten years, but you turn upside down with it.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

If you're willing to change the world let love be your energy

One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

But the world turns, and even legends change; and somewhere there is a border, and sometime, perhaps, someone will decide to cross it, however well guarded its thorns may be.

I want to share with you my belief in your power to change this country and this world.

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. [...] That is the aspect of conversation that particularly excites me: how conversation changes the way you see the world, and even changes the world.

Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

Hope rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world.