Henry Paulson Quotes

I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

I am a really impatient person who wants to see many issues fixed with solutions that don't yet exist.

Breakthroughs happen when the insight comes that I can do something right now to improve things. I am constantly looking to do something to provide people with strategies to create those immediate breakthroughs. That's my mission.

The progress has to start now.

Innovation is a necessity.

We need innovation and creativity.

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

Finding a better way is all I do.

If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses.

It's good to try and learn how to adapt.

I like to think about the future and how things can be done better than they are now. That's what engineers do.

If you change nothing, nothing will change.

Making progress on longstanding challenges requires a different lens and a new approach.

We need to stop talking and start acting, and I am more than eager to be part of that change.

The time is now, the person is you.

Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.

If you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately...it's everything.

I don't just talk about change. I actually have a plan to execute change and make it happen.

Rick Scott used let's get to work to say: All these politicians talk; it's time to do. Everybody else talks about the problem; it's time to find the solution.

The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.

You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

You must change your approach in order to change your results.