Gary Hamel Quotes

Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.

I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there's something that can come out of experimentation. It's somewhat unsettling, but it's a hopeful thing in a way. I've been here before, lots of times.

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

I'm interested in what's new. I'm interested in change. I'm interested in a different game in life.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

The new frontier is here whether we seek it or not.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

... science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

I believe if you are not rediscovering yourself and pushing boundaries, then you are not alive.

Imagine something new, or you will only go where you have been.

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.'

An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.

Creativity is our North Star. This way of working and this speed, this new opening and innovation, putting everything in discussion must remain at the base of what we do.

Part of our human nature is finding new ways of being.

I'm interested in talking to people and dealing with people who are set and ready for change and action. Who get it. And who are looking for solutions.

Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.

There's always a time for change, and you should never be frightened of it.

I'm always moving forward and trying new things.

Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there's one fact that I've learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it's that nothing has ever grown without changing.

Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.

If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past.