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Quotes About Incremental

Break any problem into, or make any changes in, small increments.
~ Anne Grant
Development is an endurance exercise with incremental improvements.
~ Sri Mulyani Indrawati
I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.
~ Wes Bentley
BUILD WITH LEGO Big is best built from small. Bake one small cake. Bake another. And another. Then stack them.
~ Bent Flyvbjerg
When you're facing an opponent over a broad front, you don't aim for the opponent's strong points, important though they may be. Pick a little outpost that you can capture and win. And then you find another place that you can capture and win it, and then you move slowly toward the big places.
~ Pete Seeger
You can win with consistent benefits, delivered over time. You win by incrementally earning share, attention and trust.
~ Seth Godin
One of the biggest mistakes that founders can make is doing something that maybe seems like a great idea, and seems like a good use of time, but actually isn't measurable, significant, incremental growth.
~ Julia Hartz
From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.
~ David Suzuki
I've always been interested in public health approaches because it seems to me we have this yearning for silver bullets, and that is not in fact how change comes about. Change comes through silver buckshot - a lot of little things that achieve results. That's a classic public health approach.
~ Nicholas Kristof
Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.
~ John P. Kotter
While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental guy.
~ Anna Quindlen
The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.
~ Anne Lamott
Chobani did a really wonderful yogurt campaign on 'Instagram' to shift perceptions away from the fact that they were just yogurt. And they had a 7-point incremental lift on shifting that perception through a brand advertisement on Instagram.
~ Kevin Systrom
I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.
~ Patrick Marber
In contrast to how tech firms want to disrupt and break things - developing drugs must be incremental and step-by-step. This is the kind of work that involves people putting their lives on the line every day with clinical trials.
~ Vivek Ramaswamy
incremental development can be disconcerting for teams and management who aren't used to it because it front-loads the stress in a project.
~ Steve Freeman
Compromise is moving in the right directlon more slowly than one might like.
~ Grover Norquist
In terms of my career, it's been a lot of incremental improvement slowly over time.
~ J. J. Redick
There is an old saying that "by the yard it's hard; but inch by inch, anything's a cinch!
~ Brian Tracy
Because genes work in combination, the incremental effect of adding a new gene to a genome may be not linear, but exponential.
~ Gary Marcus
These evolutionary achievements were incremental steps toward multicellularity. Colonies of single-celled organisms could be sieved apart, then, if given freedom, were (and still are) able to reconstruct their shattered community.
~ Howard Bloom
In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
~ Gary Hamel
The incremental approach to change is effective when what you want is more of what you've already got.
~ Richard Pascale
it can be masked with a veneer of legality, it can be cloaked with plausible deniability. It is always possible to justify each incremental step.
~ Cass R. Sunstein