Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes

You can trick yourself into doing things by doing it one step at a time and never letting yourself see the overall picture.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

I want to start with small but definitive change; the big picture is too abstract.

We're going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.

All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

I like to take things incrementally, and strive for something that feels more attainable.

Even if people just change two or three things that they are able to sustain over time, it makes quite a difference eventually.

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Break any problem into, or make any changes in, small increments.

The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.

People think that you have to do something huge, like go to Africa and build a school, but you can make a small change in a day. If you change Wednesday, then you change Thursday. Pretty soon it's a week, then a month, then a year. It's bite-size, as opposed to feeling like you have to turn your life inside out to make changes.

I've become fascinated by the idea that it's really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end of the year, it's 150 improvements.

Little changes are the enemies of great changes.

Real change happens a step at a time.

Small, daily elevations compound into massive results over time.

Rarely do we see immediate use of innovative technologies. I believe that the future is built by small pieces that add up.

We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles.

If you want to effect change, start small.

Small daily - seemingly insignificant - improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.

Take great comfort in knowing that ALL great feats are accomplished one small step at a time.

You don't need a grand plan, you don't need to go back to the ancestors and rewrite the rules. You just need to take small steps and accumulate small wins.

We can't start with big thinking, we have to approach it little by little. Sustainability isn't going to become big right away. Each day you give yourself a little bit more responsibility. It's not ideal, but that's the only way things change, we can't just keep ignoring it.