Quotes About Progress

If you do what you always did, you get what you always gotten

1. An absence of fear of the future and of veneration for the past. One who fears the future, who fears failure, limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail. What is past is useful only as it suggests ways and means for progress.

Everything can always be done better than it is being done.

Every failure is an opportunity to begin again with more information.

Most surely all guys aren't same, and any democratic concept which strives to make men equal is handiest an attempt to block development

Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there.

I I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses

The biggest goal can be achieved if you simply break it down into enough small parts.

Skepticism, if by that we mean cautiousness, is the balance wheel of civilization.

The present order often clumsy often stupid has this advantage over any other. It works. Doubtless it will merge by degrees into another order and it will also work. But not so much as to what it is, but as into what men will bring into it.

Progress through cautious, well founded experiments.

If you keep a record of all your failures you will soon have a list of everything which cannot be done.

The difficulty is not in finding men to advance but men willing to be advanced.

Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover if they are good ideas. An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an old idea works, then the weight of the evidence is all in its favor. Ideas

You are not saving when you are taking away from yourself becoming more productive. You are really taking away from your ultimate capital.

Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost any one can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.

given a good idea to start with, it is better to concentrate on perfecting it than to hunt around for a new idea. One idea at a time is about as much as any one can handle.

in the beginning there was hardly any one who sensed that the automobile could be a large factor in industry. The

You are not "saving" when you prevent yourself from becoming more productive.

Put brains into the method, and more brains, and still more brains—do things better than ever before; and by this means all parties to business are served and benefited. And all of this can always be done.

Our modern industrialism, changed to motives of public service, will provide means to remove every injustice that gives soil for prejudice.

Suppression of progress plays into the hands of the social enemy. Every advance in social justice establishes the nation.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Increasingly better product at an ever?decreasing price.