Change Quotes

The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive - make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world.

~ Jack Ma

I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'

~ Elon Musk

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

~ Larry Page

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

~ Jose Padilha

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

~ Alex Steffen

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

~ Jaron Lanier

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.

~ Michael Porter

A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago.

~ Damian Marley

The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two.

~ Robert Fogel

No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.

~ Pat Gillick

When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often the case. Look at Kodak: it was the dominant imaging company in the world. They did fabulously during the great depression, but then wiped out the shareholders because of technological change.

~ Charlie Munger

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

~ Marsha Blackburn

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

~ Barack Obama

We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.

~ Naveen Jain

Business models change. As technology processes, business models change.

~ Marsha Blackburn

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.

~ Tom Peters

Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.

~ Daniel H. Wilson

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

~ Niklas Zennstrom

I'll take transformational change any way it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection. To call what happens 'the placebo effect' is just to give a name to something we don't understand.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

The great growling engine of change - technology.

~ Alvin Toffler

It's very difficult for people who don't play video games to understand their power simply by watching, and it's very difficult for people who aren't close to technology to understand how rapidly it can change whatever it touches.

~ Bing Gordon

People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of 'Wired' magazine. Then things began to change. In the early '80s, we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.

~ Sherry Turkle

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

~ Carol Burnett

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

~ Jim Rohn

Giving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that's what you are.

~ Keke Palmer

My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.'

~ Miranda Lambert

My mom used to call me a parrot, because the way I spoke would change in every country we'd go to.

~ Hannah Simone

When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.

~ Rich Lowry

You really don't need to study how to change a diaper. As a new mom, you learn pretty darn quickly!

~ Ivanka Trump

It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

~ Michelle Obama

I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom wouldn't let me change my hair because she was always chasing me around with a hairbrush, and it was always tangled, so she just would cut it off, and she's right: short hair did suit me.

~ Dorothy Hamill

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.

~ Joe Biden

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

~ Cal Thomas

Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social change, at least for the immediate future, is the corporation.

~ Tibor Kalman

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

~ Bell Hooks

I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.

~ David Cameron

As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.

~ Michelle Bachelet

It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.

~ Simon Mainwaring

The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.

~ Arthur Scargill

This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.

~ Mitt Romney