Quotes About Progress

You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

It's a question we all ask ourselves. What have we done lately? It rattles us each birthday.

…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

What gets measured gets managed.

Marketing takes a day to learn. Unfortunately, it takes a lifetime to master.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

Great companies are built by people who never stop thinking about ways to improve the business.

The person who insists on using yesterday's methods in today's world won't be in business tomorrow

We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both

The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.

Progress is often equal to the difference between mind and mindset.

Innovation is everything. When you're on the forefront, you can see what the next innovation needs to be. When you're behind, you have to spend your energy catching up.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

As you train and as you develop your talents, you do get better, hopefully, or you get out of the business.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.

Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way'

We showed that when we say 'Wisconsin is open for business', we mean it.

We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.