Charlie Munger Quotes

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

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

No matter how successful you are, change is always good.

Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.

How you manage change can make all the difference.

In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change.

One of the most difficult things in life for any individual or business is to accept and adopt change.

To change is difficult. Not to change is fatal.

While victims condemn change, leaders grow inspired by change.

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.

Nobody likes to change. There will always be resistance to change, and there always will be change. And the quicker you get to that, the easier it is. It's not such a difficult thing. If you entrench yourself and go, "By God, I will not change. I will not have this." Then, you're a dead man. We're great at adaptability. It's our strongest suit.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

In any business, you have to evolve.

Without deviation progress is not possible.

If you don't hop aboard the change train, you're gonna get derailed.

You have to change the set, stay ahead of the curve.

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

We don't have to be imprisoned by the past. When something isn't working, we can and should change.

In order for the Bureau to change we have to open ourselves to suggestions

If you don't change and mix things up, you're going to get run over. One of the things we preach is change, change, change.

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