Jon Hamm Quotes

I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.

Business models that are relevant today are not relevant tomorrow and were not in existence yesterday.

For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.

Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on.

People don't normally change when things are going well. But I want to see what's next and keep moving. That keeps things fresh.

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.

We all have to change with the times... it keeps you younger; it's a new challenge.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. You get older and the audience gets younger.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn't work today.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.

Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest.

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

Old is always fifteen years from now.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

Progress knows nothing of fixity. It cannot be pressed into a definite mould…. Progress is ever renewing, ever becoming, ever changing--never is it within the law.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

As I grow older, I have had to discard some ideas and policies because they no longer make sense. This strikes me as entirely healthy. I would invite others to do the same.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

I know that without change there would be no progress, but I am not going to mistake mere change for progress.

Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.

We tell prospective hires, 'If you want an environment that is never going to change, don't come here. This is not the place for you.'

The times change, and if you don't change with them, you get left behind.