Quotes About Progress

In the 1890's horses, carrying people to work, dropped 4.5 million tons of manure on the streets of Manhattan, every year. That was the big environmental problem of the day. "NYC will be buried in horse manure by 1950!" screamed the headlines. It doesn't matter what your opinion about this was. None of the people living in NY solved the problem despite the 1000s of opinions. People with passion for mechanics in Detroit made something called a car. Problem solved.

40% of people who graduate college never read a book again. If you are in the remaining 60% you are 1000× ahead of everyone else.

You only get better if you lean in to the uncomfortable.

What can I do right now to move forward, in this second?

It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.

followed the one percent rule: improve one percent each day, in each of these areas of life.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic—being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

There's always a gap between "what I have now" and "what I would like." And that gap is all of your excuses. All it takes to close the gap is to be creative and work your way through the excuses. I repeat: this is all it takes.

The definition of "success" for me is: "Is today successful?

Everyone around you needs to ultimately become better than you. That's how you lead.

My theory always in any career is that it takes one to three years to do the studying required. About two years before you are making any money at the new career. Three to four years before you are making a living from it and five to six years before you are killing it.

On the path to mastery, everything will go wrong.

Humans are smarter now than they were 40,000 years ago.

What happens when you stop gossiping? You have more time (gossiping consumes a lot of time). You have more friends. You have no risk of insulting the people who you otherwise would have insulted. And you gradually move ahead in the ranks of everyone who succumbed the shortcomings of gossip.

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improve one percent each day, in each of these areas of life.

Success comes from continually expanding your frontiers in every direction - creatively, financially, spiritually, and physically.

Robots are the new middle class.

There are people in the world for whom coming along is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

White people...have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this -- which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never -- the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.

The relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others in order to end the racial nightmare and acheive our country.

It's a long way," John said slowly, "ain't it? It's a hard way. It's uphill all the way.

Why am I going home? he asked himself. But he knew why. It was time. In order not to lose all that he had gained, he had to move forward and risk it all.