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In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good.

Different' and 'new' is relatively easy. Doing something that's genuinely better is very hard.

The story of New Order is all about learning from our mistakes.

If you're not first, you're last.