I find the best stuff in garage sales, often it’s not something I was looking for, usually because I didn’t know, or think, about it in the first place. This is especially true of books. Anyway. A few weeks ago I found The Big Book of Business Quotations and I’ve been having a great time dipping around in it when I have a few spare minutes. It’s amazing how outdated some of the recent stuff is and how apropos is some of the ancient stuff.

The quotes are listed by category; some are attributed, but many are anonymous, and a large number are obscure—that’s what I really like about it. I was caught by these three under “Change” and I thought I would share. Kind of brain food for the weekend.

When the wind of change blows, some build walls, others build windmills. –Anonymous

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. –James Baldwin, (New York, Dec. 1977)

When you are through changing, you are through. –Percy Barnevik, former CEO of ABB (HBR, March/April 1991

And one more…

It may make no sense to reinvent the wheel, but it makes perfect sense to keep reinventing yourself. –Miki Saxon, 2006

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