Nancy Pelosi Quotes

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of its exhausted ideas.

Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.

Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

It turns out that in the federal government, there are a lot of innovators.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I think it's good to shake up things a little bit.

When you are through changing, you are through.

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.

Today, you expand or you are expendable.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the times. Try out different areas and not get stuck in 1978.

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.