Samuel J. Palmisano Quotes

The new always competes with the old and destroys it. Men who build railroads destroy stage coach lines.

If you don't change and mix things up, you're going to get run over. One of the things we preach is change, change, change.

The business changes, and we don't all have to like the change, but it's, ultimately, the business is changed. But, that being said, I don't like it, and I'll tell you why. Because without the new school that we have right now, or without old school, there would be none of this new school, so it started somewhere, right?

Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

All that is solid melts into air. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.

We have shaken things up when necessary.

We as a nation are not allergic to change and have no desire to sanctify the status quo.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

This is the age of disruption.

Innovation means change.

Because of the rate of technology change, forecast horizons are shrinking.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

The world is evolving, and we must evolve with it.

We do not need more status quo.

I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.

The power of change that mobile technology unleashes is extraordinary.

I just want to change the game.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.