Quotes About Successful Change

#1. the more successful change transformations were more likely to set behavioral goals: 89 percent of the top third versus only 33 percent of the bottom third. For instance, a behavioral goal might be that project teams would meet once a week

Chip Heath

#2. The key to successful change is sensitivity towards that which is indigenous and, in the long run, diversity will always be more resilient than monoculture despite the current unsustainable trends in the opposite direction.

Jonathan Watts

#3. successful change transformations were more likely to set behavioral goals:

Chip Heath

#4. Kotter and Cohen observed that, in almost all successful change efforts, the sequence of change is not ANALYZE-THINK-CHANGE, but rather SEE-FEEL-CHANGE. You

Chip Heath

#5. I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

A.R. Ammons

#6. Proactive and productive change is something that does not come easy for most people, yet is one of the main reasons successful people succeed.

Michelle Moore

#7. Sometimes the only thing you need to change in order to be successful is your attitude.

Jo Linsdell

#8. I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs to the place he occupies rather than to the man; and a change of circumstances reduces it to very discreet proportions.

W. Somerset Maugham

#9. Change won't happen because everyone wishes it happens. It happens only when people decide that we'll never stop digging until we find our gold.

Israelmore Ayivor

#10. Successful entrepreneurs judge correctly the need for change, then do something about it.

James Edward Smith

#11. That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#12. Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.

Bill Drayton

#13. This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

George Papandreou

#14. To be successful one must make change an ongoing process. Quality is a race with no finish line.

David T. Kearns

#15. I don't think anybody has ever been able to live up to what they promised. I don't know a government that has ever been successful at that because once they get into power, things change and the world is controlled also by business now.

Hugh Masekela

#16. A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.

Wolfgang Puck

#17. And the most successful people are those who accept, and adapt to, constant change. This adaptability requires a degree of flexibility and humility most people can't manage.

Paul Lutus

#18. I don't feel good anymore with this skin... probably a new title... a new chapter.. something new will be more okay than that... to much honesty... I am not on this... After all if you don't know this fact, I am going to point it to you...
Marriage is successful if it's build on a lie...

Deyth Banger

#19. The idea that you could rethink the thing you'd always thought you wanted and change your plan - it was almost a revolutionary concept. That you could choose what would make you happy, not successful -Andie

Morgan Matson

#20. No matter how successful you are, change is always good. There can never be a status quo. When you have no money you can't afford long-term solutions, only short-term ones. You have to always be upgrading. Otherwise you're fucked.

Michael Lewis

#21. It's like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he's supposed to change for the worse. It's silly.

Barbra Streisand

#22. When we've been bold on the Bank of England, on PFI, on great constitutional change, on the New Deal, we've been most successful. So what we have to continue to try and do is to battle with ideas and find new ways of applying those values as the world changes.

John Reid

#23. Everything changes, money rules. In my era, if you were successful, you were going to make money, but you never worried about it.

Ron Santo

#24. Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

Edwin Louis Cole

#25. Bill collectors and harassing phone calls is enough to motivate some people to become successful. Maybe the pain is not great enough yet for you to act. Are you going to continue to feel sorry for yourself? On the other hand, are you ready to do what you need to do to change your situation?

Jon Jones

#26. You know, times change and the elements change along with it. The elements of success. And my son's very successful. He's doing very well. And I have a younger daughter who sings.

Billy Eckstine

#27. We are seeing some challenges and some changes in American business, American enterprise, but the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is a reminder of things that must never change: the passion for excellence, the drive to innovate, the hard work that goes with any successful enterprise.

George W. Bush

#28. Change capability is one of the strategic capabilities which underpin successful execution and move the organization from efficiency to agility.

Pearl Zhu

#29. There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.

Gary Hamel

#30. Don't just create; create to change; change to improve; improve to increase. Aspire to inspire.

Israelmore Ayivor

#31. The only successful manifestation is one which brings about a change or growth in consciousness; that is, it has manifested God, or revealed him more fully as well as having manifested a form ..

David Spangler

#32. Successful (working) but undesigned applications carry the seeds of their own destruction; they are easy to write, but gradually become impossible to change.

Sandi Metz

#33. Successful people are 100% convinced that they are masters of their own destiny , they're not creatures of circumstance, they create circumstance, if the circumstances around them suck they change them.

Jordan Belfort

#34. People submit too
easily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, whenever
they consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what they
are giving up, never what they are about to gain

Chris Murray

#35. Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.

Napoleon Hill

#36. I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're successful. People need to change their idea of what success is.

Joan Jett

#37. I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.

Daniel Everett

#38. Money is definitely needed, but how much money do we really need? If we would change our idea of a successful life to a joyful life, we would find our need for money would dramatically decrease.

Jaggi Vasudev

#39. Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.

Susan Polgar

#40. Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can't possibly claim that it was successful.

Bashar Al-Assad

#41. I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

Rupert Murdoch

#42. In order to be successful, I had to be willing to grow and change to become whoever I needed to be.

Robert Kiyosaki

#43. The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.

Mark Cane

#44. Your voice can change the world.

Barack Obama

#45. One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.

Robert E. Quinn

#46. The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.

Marc Benioff

#47. If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors.

Max McKeown

#48. Use the powerful tool of thought and develop your mindset to believing and knowing you can change anything to your favour; yes, you have God's Word so fashion your thought according to God's Word.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#49. To be successful one must be willing to learn and apply new concepts and not be afraid of change.

Craig R. Barrett

#50. Changing the change that changes us, is the right change to be successful in this changing world

Zafar Qumri

#51. It's weird - sort of not terribly wise - to take a book that was successful and then change its cover.

Augusten Burroughs

#52. Take the chair and sit at the fore-front of your dreams. You are the chair-person at the center of affairs; make it memorable; make an impact! Leave a legacy!

Israelmore Ayivor

#53. In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#54. Everyone in a successful organization must be willing and ready to risk. Risk is like change; it's not a choice.

Max De Pree

#55. I understand that the rule of fashion is to change, even as a successful designer - you do not want to be stuck in the same rut.

Donatella Versace

#56. Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it.

Eric Ries

#57. We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

Judd Gregg

#58. Are you a clairvoyant? A fortune-teller? If not, why anticipate the worst for yourself? Past does not equal the future, so why not think big and positive?

Maddy Malhotra

#59. You can never have a successful end if you expect things to change as a result of miracles. Things will never change unless you take up the challenge to change them yourself.

Israelmore Ayivor

#60. Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it.

Guy Kawasaki

#61. The real secret is to build an organization that isn't afraid to make changes while it is still successful, before change becomes imperative for survival.

Lewis E. Platt

#62. The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Ralph Abernathy

#63. Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you're successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you're inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs.

Shannon L. Alder

#64. The fact that you wish to become extremely
successful must mean that you currently do not see yourself as such.
Therefore, you need to change. The question you should be asking is
what do you need to become?

Chris Murray

#65. Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack the language that you share with your enemies and invent a language that you share with your allies.

June Jordan

#66. Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.

David W. Earle

#67. Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.

Vanessa Marano

#68. If you start to see more successful businesses that are playing on a global level, the story of Africa will begin to change

Tara Fela-Durotoye

#69. Adaptability to change is itself a hallmark of successful education.

Peter Hilton

#70. I never have changed in my taste, and the things that I love, and the way that I act, and all that. I never wanted to change, I just wanted to be successful, and be able to do more things for more people, and for myself as well.

Dolly Parton

#71. As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change ...

Margaret Sanger

#72. All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

Max McKeown

#73. I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.

Jane Clayson

#74. To be frank, my belief is if you just keep your head down and work, and you have the fortune to be successful, there really aren't moments that change you.

Mark Walter

#75. Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation.

Bonnie Marcus

#76. We created a new kind of agency ... We had to retrain our people. But the corporations that will be successful will be those that are willing to change.

Howard Draft

#77. Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.

Andy Andrews

#78. When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

Chris Evert

#79. Change Management can become more successful with people at the core of change, the cause of change and the purpose of change.

Pearl Zhu

#80. I'm convinced nonviolence can be successful in working for positive change in our relations with other countries right now.

Dorothy Cotton

#81. Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You're a superstar one day and wake up the next day and you're anonymous. To be successful in any way is beating the odds right now, I think.

Chad Kroeger

#82. Anyone that wants to live a successful life and a prosperous life has to know that life is wired in such a way that for you to survive and make it in life, CHANGE must be your constant companion.

Sunday Adelaja

#83. I believe that 99 percent of successful TV shows change an immense amount from the pilot to the tenth or twelfth episode.

Bill Lawrence

#84. When you suddenly become successful, the change is enormous, both financially and in terms of recognition and the way people treat you. I found that hard to deal with. I got very guilty about it, and I think I put up obstacles to prevent myself enjoying it.

James Nesbitt

#85. We need a grassroots movement and government policies and programs to change the food landscape and the built environment to give our children a chance to have happy, healthy successful lives.

Mark Hyman

#86. A majority of the successful women on the pop scene conform to what a woman is supposed to be. Some have tried to get things moving. They have tried to modify the image. But sometimes the image has a hard time changing the eye - to change the relationship between the image and the eye takes longer.

Orlan

#87. Successful weight management really means a permanent change in lifestyle - and success in this arena provides that person with a great opportunity to model that behavior for friends and family.

Francis Collins

#88. Major barriers to successful planning are fear of change, ignorance, uncertainty about the future, and lack of imagination.

John C. Maxwell

#89. The people who refuse to submit to God's authority will never really discover who they are and what God wants them to do. No matter how successful they may be in the eyes of the world, unless they change they will be failures in the eyes of God.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#90. I will not change. Because if you are successful and you change, you are an idiot.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#91. Every turning point in a person's life isn't reached by luck, they choose to be successful, they know what it takes to be there, they can do what is expected of them to do, they do not show trepidation about the requirements needed to be on top

Michael Bassey Johnson

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#93. To be able to donate money to effect change is extremely exciting. I think I'm very determined and persistent. All the things that you need to deliver a successful business and I think these qualities will be useful in the campaign with the Animal Justice Fund.

Jan Cameron

#94. Even if you are a loser today, it doesn't mean that you cannot change yourself

Sunday Adelaja

#95. Because there was no pre-existing patrician elite, those successful in the new book industry could write very swiftly to the top of the social hierarchy.

Andrew Pettegree

#96. Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.

Jack Kerouac

#97. Even if somebody in your family is successful, it doesn't change anything. On the contrary, I suppose people expect more of you in certain ways.

Martin Villeneuve

#98. Make sure you work at a place which gives you opportunities to learn, travel, explore, interact with intellectuals and new work skills.

Abhishek Ratna

#99. I am proactive and looking to change my own behavior rather than others' - which is generally much more successful!

Daphne Oz

#100. Training alone is rarely the answer to ensuring successful behavior change in the work environment.

Ravinder Tulsiani