Quotes About Progress

The challenge is to ask a two-part question: What next? What now? Asking is the hard part.

Those places that felt safe—the corner office, the famous college, the secure job—aren't. You're holding back, betting on a return to normal, but in the new normal, your resistance to change is no longer helpful.

If you're trying to succeed in a job or a relationship or at a task, you're either moving forward, falling behind, or standing still. There are only three choices. To

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

Those who fear risk also begin to fear movement of any kind.

Bloggers around the world are discovering that it's cheaper and faster and more effective to build their own media channels than it is to waste time arguing with the old ones.

Fact is, the first 100 years of our country's history were about who could build the biggest, most efficient farm. And the second century focused on the race to build factories. Welcome to the third century, folks. The third century is about ideas.

The act of trying to guarantee the success of an innovation is almost certain to make it less likely that it will succeed.

Doug has hit a plateau. He's not going to be challenged, pushed, or promoted to president. Doug, regardless of what he could actually accomplish, has stopped evolving—at least in the eyes of the people who matter.

Ship your work. It's good enough. Then, make it better.

if we canceled the shuttle, we'd create an urgent need for a replacement. The lack of a way to get to space would force us to invent a new, better, cheaper alternative.

The industrial age is ending, and a new one is beginning. It produces art instead of stuff and it rewards gracefulness.

We made the "doing" easier, which is precisely why we need to outsource that part of our job and focus all our energy onto the hard work of making change happen.

Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths—whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over. If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued.

Late is the first step to never.

All effective education creates tension, because just before you learn something, you're aware you don't know it (yet).

Great leaders embrace deviants by searching for them and catching them doing something right.

Produsul meu este pentru oamenii care cred _____. M? voi concentra pe cei care doresc ____. Promit c? produsul meu v? va ajuta s? ob?ine?i ____. ?i tu credeai c? e?ti aici doar ca s? vinzi s?pun.

on our way to becoming the person we seek to be.

Se zice c? modul cel mai bun de a te plânge este s? schimbi lucrurile în bine.

Ce alegem s? vindem este la latitudinea noastr?. Dac? nu se poate vorbi despre schimbarea pe care vrei s-o faci, poate c? ar trebui s? g?ses?ti o alt? schimbare care s? merite f?cut?.

If It Is Worth Doing, There's Probably a Dip

But wait, that's not enough. Not only do you need to find a Dip that you can conquer but you also need to quit all the Cul-de-Sacs that you're currently idling your way through. You must quit the projects and investments and endeavors that don't offer you the same opportunity. It's difficult, but it's vitally important.

The first rule the music business failed to understand is that, at least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin. Soon enough, the new thing will be better than the old thing. But if you wait until then, it's going to be too late.