“Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.”
Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p.132
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“Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo — and today there can be no status quo.”
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
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“Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.”
Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977), p. 83
“The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.”
Warren Bennis (1925–2014) American leadership expert
Bennis (1989, p. 45), cited in: Terrence Mech, Gerard B. McCabe (1998) Leadership and Academic Librarians. p. 56
1980s
“Science is not about status quo. It’s about revolution.”
Leon M. Lederman (1922–2018) American mathematician and physicist
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? (1993), p. 193
Steve Blank (1953) American businessman
Forbes "Lean And Meaningful: What Founders Still Need To Fix In The 21st Century" https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilyinverso/2016/02/10/lean-and-meaningful-what-founders-still-need-to-fix-in-the-21st-century/#1a89897a2389. February 29, 2016 issue.
Turgut Özal (1927–1993) Turkish politician
The Washington Institute's Eighth Annual Turgut Ozal Memorial Lecture. (June 19, 2006) http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=25 <br class="br">From remarks by United States Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Ambassador Eric S. Edelman at The Washington Institute's Eighth Annual Turgut Ozal Memorial Lecture.
“Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)