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Many of you will have noticed we have been writing Blogs and recording Podcasts that are trying to provoke businesses to embrace continuous improvement and make changes. Most recently as a result of a Podcast with Mets Kramer. We were talking about how Amazon and Google conduct their businesses. How within Amazon they were constantly reviewing customer needs and wants and making adjustments. They were working on their businesses not just in their business. Mets and I talked about the fact that within our Industry we were problem solvers. That isn’t a bad thing. We were working hard in the business trying to satisfy customer needs and wants. We didn’t find many dealerships that were working on their business. Trying to change their systems and processes. That simply won’t be sufficient. Time is running out on continuing to do what you have always done.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Alan Watts

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. Andy Warhol

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Gilda Radner

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. Harold Wilson

There is nothing permanent except change. Heraclitus

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow. Rupert Murdoch

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. Stephen Hawking

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being. Lech Walesa

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John F. Kennedy

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. Robert Kennedy

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. Jim Rohn

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. S. Lewis

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. Denis Waitley

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't. Josh Billings

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. Paul Getty

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. Isaac Asimov

I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place. Rupert Murdoch

The Time is Now

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October 29, 2021

For interested people there is a wonderful little book written by Roger W. Babson in 1920 which should be required reading for everyone in High School and every politician in the land. It is called "Fundamentals of Prosperity What They Are And Whence They Come"

In 47 pages you will understand everything you need to "understand" about work, life and results. That is the first step in my progression in life. Then there is "acceptance" of what it is that you "understand" as true and necessary and finally your "commitment" to make it happen. Enjoy it. The time is now

July 20, 2012