Gina Raimondo Quotes

Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.

We gotta bring new ideas to the table and empower each other.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

I'm trying to always do new things because if you stay behind and fight the future, you are just going to be left behind.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

… embrace new ideas with energy!

Leadership is always about change: it's not about mobilising people to do what they've always done well to continue to do it well.

People will resist change when it's done to them, not with them.

Division stifles progress and prevents good ideas - no matter their source - from being heard and considered.

When you're just in there with the same guys on a regular basis, I think there's a chance to become a little - I don't want to say lazy, but I'll say complacent. So to get a chance to go in there and mix it up with these other guys is exciting.

Now, being one who lived in the era of Obama, there are so many markers of improvement made. It's hard to be mindful of that, in the same way you're going, 'Oh everything's cool now!' and it isn't. But I try to be mindful of how much of an improvement there has been because that gives hope. You need hope. I need hope!

I can tell you, without diversity, creativity remains stagnant.

Positive leadership - conveying the idea that there is always a way forward - is so important, because that is what you are here for - to figure out how to move the organization forward. Critical to doing that is reinforcing the idea that everyone is included.

The antidote to stagnation is innovation.

We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.

Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.

Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.

Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

One of the great things about the 'Arrow' crew is that no one is settling for what they did yesterday. They're always thinking about what they can do tomorrow.

I'm an optimist - that's why I try to invent different systems; otherwise, I may as well stop right now. Sometimes I get the feeling the French cinema holds on tightly to what exists already.

Today, you expand or you are expendable.