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Quotes About Progress

There isn't a plant or a business on earth that couldn't stand a few improvements-and be better for them. Someone is going to think of them. Why not beat the other fellow to it?
~ Roger Babson
The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do if we are going to succeed as a nation.
~ John F. Kennedy
Yesterday's corporations visibly cannot meet today's economic challenges.
~ Umair Haque
I think that business leaders today have to be more rounded than they used to be, they have to be completely multi-functional and fast-moving.
~ Stuart Rose
Show business is a great place to fail upward... and I guess that's what I've done.
~ Kurt Fuller
If your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
~ Larry Page
Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction.
~ Laurent Lamothe
Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.
~ Lois Wyse
Fashion's recognized as a business now, but it was something that was almost underground when I started.
~ Lori Goldstein
The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.
~ Margaret Sanger
There is an increasingly pervasive sense that one age is over and a new one is beginning - in business, in politics, in science, in psychology.
~ Marianne Williamson
I'm a big believer that you always reiterate, you always learn, you always realize your business is evolving.
~ Mark Cuban
The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business.
~ Mark Lanegan
Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you've got to be prepared for that, but if you don't risk, then your business goes stale very quickly.
~ Unknown
One day there'll be no need for me. I'm actually hoping to put myself out of business.
~ Michael Moore
My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.
~ Michel de Montaigne
In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.
~ Satya Nadella
I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
~ Jack Kilby
Remove this quote from your collection"Humans are born to build something outrageous.
~ Kumar
The accumulation of non-obvious, ineffective, or misapplied actions leads to low productivity.
~ Unknown
Exponential business growth comes from personal development.
~ Richie Norton
We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage...
~ Max McKeown, The Strategy Book
People must make make risks, must make mess in their life's. They must make make mistakes, they must think - This is the part of the proccess "learning"!
~ Deyth Banger
Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
~ Conrad Hilton