Incremental Growth Quotes

Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step.

Rome wasn't built in a day.

The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound of earth. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Realize that little things lead to bigger things.

Change is incremental and real change, enduring change, occurs one step at a time.

Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.

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

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.

In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.

One little leak becomes a lake, Says the tiny voice in my earpiece

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.

Nothing happens overnight in this game.

Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.

I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur.

I'm a plodder, not a planner.

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.

In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

You intentionally start small, because you will not be able to compete with an incumbent... because the incumbent is always going to go for the full solution.

The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.

Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled.

Progress however, 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.

Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.

Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It's much more fun, too.

What works at scale may be different from scaling what works. Pilots often succeed, while scale-up often fails when the context changes.