Incremental Change Quotes

Britain is no longer in the politics of the pendulum, but of the ratchet.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state, and wishes to have it accepted ... must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones.

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

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

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

The dialogue is out there, the veil has been lifted. We all know that there's a ways to go. We're still fighting uphill battles, and you just have to hone in on making change, one dialogue at a time, one course of action at a time.

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

The world will be solved by millions of small things.

Sometimes the most modest changes can bring about enormous effects.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

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.

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

Gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice.

I'm kind of conservative. I like to build on what I've done in the past and try something new.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

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

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

China’s rulers … have come to see their purpose less as generating enormous change and more as maintaining the system and enhancing their performance.

I don't know if you can change things, but it's a drop in the ocean.

… evolution over revolution.