W. Edwards Deming Quotes

Nothing great comes into being all at once.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Sometimes making progress a step at a time is better than no progress at all.

I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.

Transformation in real life is extraordinarily incremental, and that's all I'm going to say.

I think the best things are the ones that happen organically and take a while because nothing really happens overnight if you think about it.

Everything happens at one step at a time.

I've been building slow, step by step.

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

No great thing happens suddenly.

I cannot tell you on a day to day basis that there's a return on investment. I can tell you if you stick with it, absolutely in a few months things will start to change. It starts to change slowly. Things start to get a little easier. As the momentum builds it becomes bigger and bigger.

There is no royal road to anything, one thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.

I'm like a slow starter. Everything I've done has built, or has taken a while.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that's by going step by step.

I believe in taking things slow, one step at a time.

I take things one step at a time.

Change is incremental. Change is small.

Slowly would be better than not at all.

The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly - we only think it does.