Henry Ford Quotes

Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things.

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

Those who will not face improvements because they are changes, will face changes that are not improvements.

You must be on top of change or change will be on top of you.

The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.

Change before you're forced to change.

The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

The No. 1 criticism most managers get is that they don't ever change or wait too long to make changes... It's very simple: Either things are performing or they're not. And if it's not performing, we have to make changes.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

I think you always have to be innovating and adapting and improving. You can't stay the same.

We need to build change in to our systems and let these systems evolve as circumstances change. Change is inevitable, but we need to do a better job of dealing with it, because when we start building huge gleaming monoliths, I think we start getting into trouble.

Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.

Moving with the times is an important idea for strategy today.

We tell prospective hires, 'If you want an environment that is never going to change, don't come here. This is not the place for you.'

Evolving our culture to operate and think differently is no small task. We are challenging our employees to be the best of both small and big companies - they should operate with the soul and spirit of a startup, while leveraging the scale, resources and capabilities of Campbell - with the goal of ultimately becoming the biggest small company.

I always try to find better ways to do things. Whether it's a game plan, a practice, a meeting, an interview, whatever it is. I'm going to find a way to find a way to analyze it and find a better way to do it. That's my mindset. I've never been satisfied with anything. That's just my mindset. I'm always trying to find a better way to do things.

When you think you've made it, you need to keep pushing because the person next to you or your competitor is also getting better, and you need to be able to stay ahead.

Change has to be fundamental to a company's culture, or there is no way it can survive.

We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process... We have to keep on learning, creating, applying, by-passing, touching upon, refining and clarifying a number of notions and details that need to be improvised and applied and which, thank God, we cannot foresee. The only rigidity lies in our will, our conviction that we are on the right road and that our initiatives are most pressing.

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.

Sometimes you have to get rid of something that's good, and tinker with something that's better.

The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good.

Keep an open mind; it's the only way new things can get in.