Quotes About Progress

The enemy of stability can be complacency

Don't just let your business or your job make something for you; let it make something of you.

If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.

Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.

We are always saying to ourself.. we have to innovate. We got to come up with that breakthrough... we're only paid for breakthroughs.

Relief has its place. But what the people need is not relief, but release - release of their own potential for development.

Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to succeed in business.

Radio was supposed to die in 1945, when TV came along. It turns out that radio grew and grew, and it's a bigger business today than it has ever been.

It's when you take that first step opening a business or making an investment that it becomes real.

The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me

Change the boundaries of business.

For me, it's always been the initial business - just getting a word down, any words down, on a blank piece of paper. Once I've done that, I'm away. Beginning is one half of the deed.

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

Every problem contains the seed of it's own solution.

Make mistakes faster.

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

I prefer the word "engagement." Instead of empowerment, it's enabling women to engage in business.

As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.

An invention that is quickly accepted will turn out to be a rather trivial alteration of something that has already existed.

The future of this business is far beyond the vision of any of us.

Liberty is always unfinished business