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"Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up."
Andy Law
Creative Company

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
Confucius

"One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment."
Robert E. Quinn

"Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up."
James Belasco and Ralph Stayer
Flight of the Buffalo (1994)

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince (1532)

"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."
Niccolo Machiavelli

"People don't resist change. They resist being changed!"
Peter Senge

"The nature and structure of belief systems is important from the perspective of an informational theorist because beliefs are thought to provide the cognitive foundation of an attitude. In order to change an attitude, then, it is presumably necessary to modify the information on which that attitude rests. It is generally necessary, therefore, to change a person's beliefs, eliminate old beliefs or introduce new beliefs."
Richard Petty and John Cacioppo
Attitudes & Persuasion

"All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself."
Paul Hawken
"Natural Capitalism, Yoga Journal October 1994

"Your success in life isn't based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition, customers and business."
Mark Sanborn

"When a mature and able manager feels bored, he should seriously consider changing jobs, changing companies or simply retiring. It is not fair to anyone for half a leader to hold a full-time leadership job."
James L. Hayes

"Change has a bad reputation in our society. But it isn't all bad not by any means. In fact, change is necessary in life to keep us moving ... to keep us growing ... to keep us interested . ... Imagine life without change. It would be static ... boring ... dull."
Dr. Dennis O'Grady
in Bottom Line - Personal

"Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm."
Peter Drucker
Management Challenges for the 21st Century (1999)

"Culture does not change because we desire to change it. Culture changes when the organization is transformed; the culture reflects the realities of people working together every day."
Frances Hesselbein
The Key to Cultural Transformation, Leader to Leader (Spring 1999)

"It is a bad plan that admits of no modification."
Publilius Syrus
First Century BC

"The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better."
Robert P. Vanderpoel

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead

"I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward."
David Livingstone

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
John F. Kennedy

"Ten years ago, Peter Senge introduced the idea of the 'learning organization' Now he says that for big companies to change, we need to stop thinking like mechanics and to start acting like gardeners."
Alan M. Webber
Learning for a Change

"Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got. "
Peter Drucker

"Everything is in a process of change, nothing endures; we do not seek permanence."
Masatoshi Naito

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."
Woodrow Wilson

Sumber: http://www.leadershipnow.com/changequotes.html