Quotes About Consistency

This is a result of APIs being like stars: once someone discovers them, they need to stay and behave well forever.

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

The discipline of practice every day is essential. When I skip a day, I notice a difference in my playing. After two days, the critics notice, and after three days, so does the audience.

WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY APP! I LIKED IT JUST HOW IT WAS! CHANGE IT BACK!" The standard playbook in software is to dismiss users like that. Hey, this is the price of progress, and progress is always good, always better. That's myopic and condescending. For many customers, better doesn't matter when comfort, consistency, and familiarity are higher up on their value chain.

You don't create a culture. It happens. This is why new companies don't have a culture. Culture is the by-product of consistent behavior.

What we do repeatedly hardens into habits. The longer you carry on, the tougher it is to change. All your best intentions about doing the right thing "later" are no match for the power of habits.

When calm starts early, calm becomes the habit. But if you start crazy, it'll define you. You have to keep asking yourself if the way you're working today is the way you'd want to work in 10, 20, or 30 years. If not, now is the time to make a change, not "later.

Culture is the byproduct of consistent behavior.

La esencia de tu negocio debería pivotar sobre todo aquello que no cambia. Sobre cosas que la gente quiere hoy y seguirá pidiendo dentro de diez años.

Ponte a buscar una audiencia para tu empresa desde el primer momento. Busca personas interesadas en lo que quieres decir. Y sé constante en la tarea.

Culture is the byproduct of consistent behavior. If you encourage people to share, then sharing will be built into your culture. If you reward trust, then trust will be built in. If you treat customers right, then treating customers right becomes your culture.

Marketing is something everyone in your company is doing 24/7/365.

Marketing isn't just a few individual events. It's the sum total of everything you do.

Companies need to be true to a type of customer more than a specific individual customer with changing needs.

Policies are only meant for situations that come up over and over again.

Keeping a solid team together for a long time is a key to peak performance. People grow closer and more comfortable with each other, and consequently do even better work. Meanwhile, rookie teams make rookie mistakes.

Start building your audience today. Start getting people interested in what you have to say. And then keep at it. In a few years, you too will get to chuckle when people discuss your "overnight" success.

The core of your business should be built around things that won't change. Things that people are going to want today and ten years from now. Those are the things you should invest in.

Companies that do the best job of embracing constant change, growth, and reinvention make it look easy, because they've systematized and scaled all the core business practices. Systematizing means determining the best way to do something (step-by-step), making certain everyone does his or her part the same way (without significant variation), and then using the system as a baseline for continual improvement.

Doing what you say, leading by example, showing consistency and fairness—these actions all build trust between managers and their teams over the long term.

Hay gente contenta y conforme, que sólo aspira a que cada día sea igual que el anterior y que el próximo; y a que no se acaben.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!

The opposite of passion is not virtue but routine. - Daphne with her Thighs in Bark

You cannot love your partner one moment and attack him or her the next.