Top 9 Maintaining The Status Quo Quotes

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

Jane Elliott

Country, Maintaining The Status Quo, Racism

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Gerry Adams

Maintaining The Status Quo, Battle, Challenging The Status Quo

Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

It's not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.

David Ben-Gurion

Israel, Maintaining The Status Quo, Expansion

Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.

Harvey Mackay

Jobs, Opportunity, Maintaining The Status Quo

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

David Rockefeller

Maintaining The Status Quo, Innovation, Needs

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

There are... two kinds of people: those who are changing and those who are setting themselves up to be victims of change. As the world continues to march on around us, if I am only maintaining the status quo - if I'm not growing - then I'm falling behind.

Jim Clemmer

Change, Fall, Maintaining The Status Quo

Jim Clemmer (1999). “Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success”, p.14, Jim Clemmer

Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.

Simon Mainwaring

Maintaining The Status Quo, Car, Sloth

"Capitalism’s Seven Debtly Sins" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

History has shown that there are very few mechanisms as effective at maintaining the status quo as a set of institutionalized regulations. Once set in regulatory concrete, reconsideration of the basic underlying assumptions is very difficult. While it will be an uphill fight to re-examine the basic underlying assumptions of any law or administrative rule, it is clearly not impossible. It will just take longer than if not so well institutionalized.

Paul Baran

Fighting, Maintaining The Status Quo, Law