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Quotes About Incremental

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.
~ Samuel Smiles
Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take onestep at a time, get a good foothold in it and advance carefully.
~ Jane Swisshelm
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
~ John Locke
Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.
~ William P. Young
Just" 1% here, 1% there. Doesn't sound like much, but compounded over time, it could be the difference between your money lasting your entire life or surviving on government or family assistance.
~ Anthony Robbins
Nothing can be done except little by little.
~ baudelaire charles iv
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's good for us when, in spite of all of the sober, pragmatic, and even correct arguments that war is sometimes necessary, someone says: war is large-scale murder, us at our worst, the stupidest guy doing the cruelest thing to the weakest being.
~ George Saunders
To win the World Cup, you win it one bit at a time.
~ Julen Lopetegui
Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.
~ Bernard Ebbers
My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
~ Edmund Phelps
Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.
~ Martha Beck
The second—incremental improvement—maintains your positioning but fails to create the type of distinction that inspires the passion that results in client loyalty and engagement.
~ Scott McKain
We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles.
~ Barack Obama
The alternative is to use a system called the Five Whys to make incremental investments and evolve a startup's processes gradually. The core idea of Five Whys is to tie investments directly to the prevention of the most problematic symptoms.
~ Eric Ries
And like him who, having a garden to weed, does not attempt to eradicate all the bad herbs at once, which would exceed his reach and his strength, but works on one of the beds at a time, and, having accomplish'd the first, proceeds to a second...
~ Benjamin Franklin
un lucru m?runt se dovede?te a fi, prin acumulare progresiva, un instrument de tortura.
~ Serge Brussolo
Bigness comes from doing many small things well. ... Individually they are not very dramatic transactions. Together though they add up.
~ Edward S. Finkelstein
Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.
~ Plutarch
Yard by yard it's very hard. But inch by inch it's a cinch.
~ Anonymous
This book argues that evolution is happening all around us. It is the best way of understanding how the human world changes, as well as the natural world. Change in human institutions, artefacts and habits is incremental, inexorable and inevitable. It follows a narrative, going from one stage to the next; it creeps rather than jumps; it has its own spontaneous momentum
~ Matt Ridley
that the flywheel of history is incremental change through trial and error, with innovation driven by recombination, and that this pertains in far more kinds of things than merely those that have genes. This
~ Matt Ridley
I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product. The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.
~ Steve Martin
By failing to take note of the gifts of modernity, social critics poison voters against responsible custodians and incremental reformers who can consolidate the tremendous progress we have enjoyed and strengthen the conditions that will bring us more.
~ Steven Pinker
My career has been an inch at a time.
~ Ryan Reynolds