Irene Rosenfeld Quotes

When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.

In any business that grows big on one business model, transitions can throw everything in the air.

Change is a process which has to be managed.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

Change is rarely comfortable.

You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.

I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

I'm not someone who feels settled.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

Anything that keeps me off balance is vital.

Place and displacement have always been central for me. A type of insecurity goes with that: you are always following the cues, like learning the dance steps when the dance is already under way.

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.

You always have years when you go through transition and the side needs to be rebuilt. Or you have changes in terms of managers.

When a company makes a fundamental change, it is inevitable that some people will leave.

Any time you make a change, and a major change, as you try to establish something, there's a lot of question marks there on what's going to happen moving forward.

I've lost a lot of control in my life.

The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.

How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?

I just stood there, looking at her. My head was spinning, my mouth dry, and all I could think about was that I wanted to go someplace safe, someplace I could be alone and okay, and that this was impossible. My old life had changed and my new one was still in progress, altering by the second. There was nothing, nothing to depend on. And why was I surprised?

Any company has got to reinvent itself again and again.

Change is always a little bit strange.

With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.