Abhijit Banerjee Quotes

There are no instant solutions.

If you want to make changes in the world, you're going to have to be there day after day doing the boring, straightforward work of getting a couple of people interested and building a slightly bigger organization and carrying out the next move and suffering frustration and finally getting somewhere. That's how the world changes.

People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.

If at the end of May we don't, we'll reform, regroup, decide how we're going to go about it, but if the task force can't come up with the bill, I'm going to push mine, and go ahead and make the changes in it that we've been working on now for a year or two and just go for it.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

Hasten slowly.

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

Put not your trust in new leaders, better systems, new organisations or regulatory reorganisation. They may well be good and necessary, but will to some degree fail.

Changing social policy is just dogged hard work.

Public policy must lead and not merely react.

Successful reform requires a long-term vision, driven by political leadership.

If it's one thing we do really well as a company, it's that we take big change slowly and deliberately and bring the community along with us.

When we look at policy, it's important we make sure that it's up to date and reflective of the way the world works today - and where the world is heading in the future.

Policy doesn't move as quickly as innovation happens.

I've been building slow, step by step.

I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.

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

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Remember to dream big, think long-term, underachieve on a daily basis, and take baby steps. That is the key to long-term success.

It is the logical next step in our ongoing effort to shift our company's centre of gravity, accelerate our growth

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

I spend as little time with lawmakers as possible. Many are great. And more than you expect want real change. But they're not going to do anything till we, the outsiders, force them to adopt it.