Famous Quotes

"Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed and external changes over which no one has control."

Margaret J. Wheatley on Change

More quotes about Change

• "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

  Maya Angelou on Change

• "Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Change

• "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

  Reinhold Niebuhr on Change

• "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

  Barack Obama on Change

• "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Change

More quotes by Margaret J. Wheatley

• "In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together."

• "When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans."

• "I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas."

• "The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control."

• "Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place."