Peter Levine Quotes

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

My 'if it's not broken, don't fix it' type attitude might have held me back and made me complacent.

We tend to default to complacency. Stick to the easy option. We all do it. We've tried to create a business model and society around us that is as easy and boxed as possible. We love creating boundaries and borders.

One of my biggest sources of angst is having people so comfortable with a formula that works that they are not challenging themselves or their ideas.

Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be.

Competence is the enemy of change!

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck.

There are always a lot of people so afraid of rocking the boat that they stop rowing. We can never get ahead that way.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

When you believe games can only be toys for kids and that you are successful at doing this, why would you look further and take risks exploring new directions?

Established is a dangerous word for me. It could imply a modicum of complacency.

If you think you're doing everything right, then you have a tendency to stand pat.

When something is working well, it becomes too easy to let things run themselves.

Instead of embracing change, the E.U.'s precautionary principle has held back progress.

Once you have the money, fame, success or power, it's so easy to maintain that, because all you have to do is play it safe.

When money, rather than innovation or value, is your competitive advantage, that's when things get boring and stagnant, and monopolies take root.

Because we've always done it that way.' During my 12-year tenure as a special agent with the U.S. Secret Service, I heard those words all too often. The agency, in my experience, has an entrenched management culture resistant to change.

I know that with most companies that have a lot of success, it tends to throw you off, and you can become more conservative. One of our questions is, How do we keep from being pulled into conservatism because we're afraid of not being successful again?

Success comes with a baggage. When you are successful, there is a lot of temptation to not foray outside of your boundaries and just stick to what is successful. It is very tempting because it is very easy to do.

The vigorous man industriously striving for the improvement of his condition acts neither more nor less than the lethargic man who sluggishly takes things as they come. For to do nothing and to be idle are also action, they too determine the course of events.

No change, no chance.

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

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.

People are satisfied with making minor upgrades and tweaking things here and there - as long as that's the landscape, it will keep on happening. I don't see a problem necessarily, but at the same time it is nice to see new things come.