Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes

If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making.

I am about to put foward some major ideas; they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will; in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.

Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined.

Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of time the run is, is a great feeling.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

My view is there's no bad time to innovate.

Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.

Ideas are more powerful than people.

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

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

I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.

I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the future.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

We are tomorrow's past.

Let’s make history.

Either you make history or you will be history.