Joni Mitchell Quotes

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

Oracle has grown and advanced because we've been consistently willing to cannibalize ourselves.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

The key is to embrace disruption and change early. Don't react to it decades later. You can't fight innovation.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

When you look at every studio in the '20s or '30s, from Louis B. Mayer to Jack Warner, you see people who started with one plan and quickly shifted gears to adapt to a changing world. One of my favorite stories is that Walt Disney mortgaged his house to make 'Snow White.' He saw there was a real opportunity to change the world.

It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

I think when you're doing something cutting edge like 'The Matrix,' it might mean when everybody's saying 'no' that you're really on the right track.

It’s important to embrace new technologies instead of fight them.

With every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem.

… people who have built a business doing it the old way think it would be better if things could be more stable for longer periods of time. But you have to remember, new inventions are not inherently disruptive. Invention is only disruptive if customers say, “Hey, I like this better than the old way”.

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

We didn't get agitated over the closure of blacksmiths when people stopped riding horses and started driving cars.

Progress only happens with change, and people love something different.

The business changes, and we don't all have to like the change, but it's, ultimately, the business is changed. But, that being said, I don't like it, and I'll tell you why. Because without the new school that we have right now, or without old school, there would be none of this new school, so it started somewhere, right?

I want to create new value by doing something people haven't done before.

I like new products, I like when YouTube changes, I like when people have big ideas and try things out.

The game's evolving quickly, man, and somebody's gotta be trying some new stuff.

The way you advance a technological society is to try things - to be controversial and contrarian in your thinking in order to get to something that eventually people say, 'I told you it was a great idea.'

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

I'm always looking for the next major hurdle and doing something that the world has never seen.