Johann Lamont Quotes

I just know that I'm innovative. I'm a quick thinker... In Washington, I just want to be a senator who finds a way to drive change and not figure out a way to conform.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.

Carry a big basket. In other words, be open to new ideas, different partners, and new practices, and have a willingness to dump out the old and irrelevant to make room for new approaches.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

I didn't run for mayor to be the caretaker of the status quo.

President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.

We tell prospective hires, 'If you want an environment that is never going to change, don't come here. This is not the place for you.'

Leaders are not dogmatic. They are principled and know that change is never easy, but when it's necessary, they must lead.

Embracing change is central to Amazon's DNA.

Leaders make things better and that requires change.

Leaders never outgrow the need to change.

Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

To innovate is not to reform.

I like change, and I like being in the middle of change.

I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

Change is one of my favourite words.

The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.

Our only security is our ability to change.

People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, 'Is this really what people are going to be doing in five years?' Very few people ask themselves what they would actually want instead if they could wave a magic wand.