Barack Obama Quotes

In the old days, you would chastise people for reinventing the wheel. Now we beg, 'Oh, please, please reinvent the wheel.'

Making progress on longstanding challenges requires a different lens and a new approach.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

The point is, you can't keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working.

We cannot continue doing the same thing and expect different results

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

Without reforms we will repeat the failures of the past.

I know that without change there would be no progress, but I am not going to mistake mere change for progress.

The most important thing is not stagnating, to keep improving.

You can't stand still in one spot, no matter how good it is. You have to do something new, keep trying. That's everything.

If you just sit on what you've created, chances are you're not going to be around much longer.

Part of innovation is, fake it until you make it. Keep trying things, but it's not just the random trying.

Only when you stop doing what doesn't work, can things get better.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.

Any year that you don't destroy one of your best-loved ideas is probably a wasted year