Condoleezza Rice Quotes

Change comes in various wavelengths. There are changes in the game, changes in the rules of the game, and changes in how the rules are changed

Most governments and people want reform. It’s the prospect of change that makes reform rare.

Broken institutions are an opportunity rather than a time to go home.

I'm committed to structural changes.

Old, deeply engrained systems take time to change, but we can't leave it to time.

In nature and state, it is safer to change many things than one.

Too often reform involves the mechanics of change rather than the underlying values.

Great institutions can only be reformed by stealth or by revolution.

… evolution over revolution.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

Not only are there no free lunches, but there are no free systemic changes either.

How much reform do you think this institution [Congress] can take?

Successful reform requires a long-term vision, driven by political leadership.

The Arab world’s wave of change was a century in the making, Why expect its effects to become clear in the space of months

Culture change means we will do things differently.

I think one of the major themes in 'Escape Fire,' really, if you break it down, is that huge institutions, the military, the Safeway Corporation and others, are being forced to change.

This is what a crisis does: It makes you question the status quo. That doesn't mean that after a crisis we move into some kind of utopia. But it is an opportunity for political change.

It takes time to change a system and to change a mindset.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

We started Kotter International to improve leaders' ability to deal with big, important transformations in organizations - and in their lives.

In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.