Barack Obama Quotes

If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past.

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

No one’s ever made money betting against America.

We have to look for opportunities if we're going to survive the next 50 years. We can't depend on what we have now.

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

Crisis creates opportunity.

If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive.

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?

We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust to change.

I think what I'm trying to build is a reputation for evolving and for change. Because of the rate of information that we have access to at this point, it's almost hard not to be ever-growing.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.

You can't fail. The further you fall, the greater the opportunity for growth and change.

As I say to our own team: 'Never protect your past, never define yourself by a single product, and always continue to steward for the long-term. Keep moving towards the future.'

Change brings opportunity.

You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.

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.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

I've been fortunate in that I've been forced to move from zone to zone.

I think America has a brilliant future.

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

I want to rebuild America.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.