Kevin Kelly Quotes

Leadership is always about change: it's not about mobilising people to do what they've always done well to continue to do it well.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

When you are through changing, you are through.

Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.

Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.

We have to look for opportunities if we're going to survive the next 50 years. We can't depend on what we have now.

I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.

Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.

Everything has yet to be invented. I never say 'green' - I say 'greener.' It's greener simply because this is a continuum of change, improvement and discovery.

The most important thing is not stagnating, to keep improving.

You always have to keep evolving. You're always trying to improve. If you're at a standstill, you're falling behind.

GE is 130 years old because it keeps changing and evolving.

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

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

You have to keep evolving.

It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that.

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

The truth is, homes change over time — and technology has to adapt, not try to do everything at once.

To stand still is to fall behind.

Change demands new learning.

I think what I'm trying to build is a reputation for evolving and for change. Because of the rate of information that we have access to at this point, it's almost hard not to be ever-growing.

I think change is always a good thing. Change keeps things moving.

Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.