Quotes About Progress

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.

When I make a mistake, it's a beauty!

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

Nothing works better than just improving your product.

That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem.

The road to someday leads to a town of nowhere.

I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

Please think about your legacy, because you're writing it every day.

We watch our competitors, learn from them, see the things that they were doing for customers and copy those things as much as we can.

Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth.

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another negotiation .

The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.

The mark of a successful organization isn't whether or not it has problems, its whether it has the same problems it had last year.

You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.

Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.

Don't 'tolerate' mistakes. Embrace them!

You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.