This document contains 20 quotes related to change management from various leaders and thinkers. The quotes discuss topics such as the importance of embracing change rather than fearing it, changing before needing to change, letting go of fear as key to change, and recognizing that culture changes when an organization is transformed by the realities of how people work together every day.

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Transformational Quotes
on Change Management
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1 “Slowness to change usually
means fear of the new.
– Philip Crosby

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Change before you have to.
– Jack Welch
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People don’t resist change.
They resist being changed!
– Peter Senge
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If you want to make enemies,
try to change something.
– Woodrow Wilson
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The key to change … is to let
go of fear.
– Rosanne Cash
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Our only security is our ability
to change.
– John Lilly
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If you don’t like something,
change it. If you can’t change
it, change your attitude.
– Maya Angelou
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The world hates change, yet
it is the only thing that has
brought progress.
– Charles Kettering
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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 everyday.
– Frances Hesselbein
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The greatest danger in times
of turbulence is not the
turbulence – it is to act with
yesterday’s logic.
– Peter Drucker
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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
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The rate of change is not going to
slow down anytime soon. If
anything, competition in most
industries will probably speed up
even more in the next few
decades.
– John P. Kotter
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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
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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 will be static,
boring, dull.
– Dr. Dennis O’Grady
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Whosoever desires constant
success must change his
conduct with the times.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
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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
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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
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Change your thoughts and you
change your world.
– Norman Vincent Peale
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If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are
heading.
– Lao Tzu
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If you always do what you’ve
always done, you’ll always get
what you’ve always got.
– Anonymous
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