Quotes About Progress

I think, in anyone's career, you have to map out some sort of strategy of steps that take you closer to the career you want.

Moving with the times is an important idea for strategy today.

Every few years, you have to change your strategy. You have to look at how the world is mutating, and mutate. Not in the same way but in parallel.

I feel very good about our business and the speed at which we are executing our strategy to drive differentiation for Accenture and accelerate our rotation to The New.

Every year, I laid out a strategy of what I was going to do, and I was very successful. In 2003, I wanted to take the world by storm, and I did that indoors. In 2004, I wanted to run fast; I did that. In 2005, I wanted to be dominant, and I did that as well.

A lot of companies really will only pursue businesses that are adjacent or look like an extension of their current business - which by the way is a completely rational strategy.

I am old enough to have grown up glued to a screen offering only three alternatives, each of which was an all-powerful national network that seemed permanently ensconced in the entertainment stratosphere.

If you have a perfectionist streak - and who doesn't? - running can kill the perfectionist inside you.

When you're on a win streak, your confidence is high, and it means everything in your camp has been working and it means you're on the right track.

Ten, 20, 30, winning, losing streak, whatever it is, we've just got to keep pushing, keep getting better each day.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, and has its backwaters. At best, civilisation advances by spirals.

Businesses which were slow to recognize the power of the Internet in the mid '90s were quickly left behind. For example, Blockbuster failed to innovate with streaming technology and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2010.

Most companies that are great at something - like AOL dialup or Borders bookstores - do not become great at new things people want (streaming for us) because they are afraid to hurt their initial business.

The first step in mobility was about letting people speak to each other; then, through 3G and 4G, we saw real connectivity - which works but isn't really designed for quality streaming. With 5G, we won't just be able to communicate better: it will democratise machines.

In 1947, Porsche began work on its 356. In many ways, it was like the original iPhone. It wasn't perfect. It was underpowered. But it was streamlined and aerodynamic.

On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.

As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not more than five or six miles per day and sometimes remained two days at the same encampment.

I thought there was a glitch when they told me that in two or three weeks 'My Church' hit a million streams.

I'm very excited that I can get on a skateboard and skateboard down the street now. That was something I never thought I'd be able to do. I conquered my fears.

Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.

We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.

I'm very bullish on the streetcar.

It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, 'What's happening?' and keep it moving, but it's a certain element that'll never be able to roll with you once you get to this level, because that's the separation of it all.