Business Change Quotes

Traditional businesses can say, 'We're going to sell widgets to people, and it will make X amount of profit.' But new business models are hard.

If you ask the average guy on the street to name five companies that have truly transformed themselves over the few decades, Hewlett-Packard would be on everybody's list. You'd also put on this list GE and Johnson & Johnson.

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

That is the key challenge facing management today; change is the only constant.

Startups are rapidly changing systems. If you use an annual review cycle, you aren't getting feedback at the same pace that you need to adapt and change the business.

The television business, by virtue of what's happened to streaming, it's really turned the traditional television business upside down.

I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.

The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.

Any existing structures and all the conditions of doing business are always in a process of change. Every situation is being upset before it has had time to work itself out. Economic progress, in a capitalist society, means turmoil.

Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday.

We are living at the beginning of the humanization of business.

I think there's a lot of things that need to be changed in the business.

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

No matter what business you are in, there is change, and it's happening pretty quickly.

Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.

Old-style management is irrelevant.

Most businesses change in character and quality over the years, sometimes for the better, perhaps more often for the worse. The investor need not watch his companies' performance like a hawk; but he should give it a good, hard look from time to time.

We need a new way of doing business to get out of the present crisis ... Absolute greed has come close to bankrupting the world. Thanks to the crisis that certain businesses have dumped on everyone a lot of people are going to suffer on a global scale. All of us must learn. It is all the more important that those business leaders that are left standing try to be a force for good.

Every part of your business will change based on what I consider predictive analytics of the future.

Enron is now officially out of the energy business. They are now in a new business: confetti.

The most probable assumption is that no currently working 'business theory' will be valid 10 years hence.

You see more women in the CFO ranks. It's an evolution.

To me, I think I've always carried that type of WWE style with me throughout my career, even before I got here, so the transition hasn't been that difficult. I've been enjoying the transition, to be honest with you, because in my opinion, this business evolves all the time, and it changes all the time.

I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.