Roger Goodell Quotes

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

I believe it's less risky long-term to embrace change.

We live in a dynamic time, where the rate of change and the rate of innovation are very high. It’s not equal in all segments or sectors of the economy, but we are seeing a lot of innovation in certain sectors, and I expect that to continue.

My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.

We have to dare to modernize to get room to maneuver for the priorities in the future.

I used to have a five-year plan when I was younger. But that's changed. Technology is changing every day. So you have to live in the day. You have to see what the opportunities are, and go for them.

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

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

No change, no chance.

Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.

We can't afford to stand pat while the world races by. The United States of America did not become the most prosperous nation on Earth by sheer luck or happenstance. We got here because each time a generation of Americans has faced a changing world, we have changed with it. We have not feared our future; we have shaped it.

There’s no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?

America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

The best people know that they should join a rocketship.

Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

When you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress.