Incremental Gain Quotes

I take it one game at a time, one year at a time.

Little by little does the trick.

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

Every day, I get a little smarter.

You want to get to the top of the cliff. But that's not what you focus on immediately. You focus on the next ledge just beyond your reach, because you need to do one clever thing to get up there. And then, once you get there, you do it again. A lot of this is rather boring and not very glamorous. But you can't jump cliffs in a single bound.

Step by step you get ahead, but rarely in fast spurts.

It is better to gain a foot than to stand still, even when you seek to gain a mile.

I have always believed that you win fights round by round.

An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

I did nothing but international liberation politics for ten years, and usually it was like, you gain an inch, you lose a half an inch. It's slow going, man.

Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.

I was never the person who came up with a boom somehow. I worked slowly and consistently, making my way up the rankings, so there wasn't one special moment.

A little bit added to what you've already got gives you a little bit more.

Small victories are bet­ter than none.

With each step I take, I see that my ability to perform gets a little better. So until it starts getting worse, I'm going to keep moving forward.