Incremental Progress Quotes

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.

Success is achieved in inches, not miles.

Even an ideal set of trade-offs must—and should—leave a whole spectrum of unmet needs, because the cost of wiping out the last vestige of any problem is leaving other problems in more dire condition. In short, trade-offs must be incremental rather than categorical, if limited resources are to produce optimal results in any social system as a whole.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.

I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest - sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are learning machines; they go to bed every night a little wiser than when they got up. And, boy, does that habit help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.

The little things amount to big things.

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

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

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

Start by thinking of the smallest possible action you could take; then, take it. Then, choose the next smallest action, and do that.

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

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

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

Ultimately, every great endeavor consists of many little steps.

In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.

Prac­tice doesn’t make per­fect. It makes bet­ter.

Progress is more important than perfection.

Remember, don't try to build the greatest wall that's ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day.

Realize that little things lead to bigger things.

You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground.

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