Quotes About Progress

In this world very few leaps of progress arrive exclusively as benefits

To keep your momentum and motivation up, get in the habit of accomplishing small victories along the way.

When you put off decisions, they pile up. And piles end up ignored, dealt with in haste, or thrown out. As a result, the individual problems in those piles stay unresolved. Whenever you can, swap "Let's think about it" for "Let's decide on it." Commit to making decisions. Don't wait for the perfect solution. Decide and move forward.

As a manager, you have to accept the fact that people will make mistakes, but not intentionally, and that mistakes are the price of learning and self-sufficiency.

You can't build on top of "We'll decide later," but you can build on top of "Done.

Sometimes you need to say, "We're going in a new direction because that's what makes sense today.

When you get in that flow of making decision after decision, you build momentum and boost morale. Decisions are progress.

Grow slow and see what feels right—premature hiring is the death of many companies. And avoid huge growth spurts too—they can cause you to skip right over your appropriate size.

If you constantly fret about timing things perfectly, they'll never happen.

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Trade the dream of overnight success for slow, measured growth. It's hard, but you have to be patient. You have to grind it out. You have to do it for a long time before the right people notice.

Defensive companies can't think ahead; they can only think behind. They don't lead; they follow.

Most work is not coming up with The Next Big Thing. Rather, it's making better the thing you already thought of six months—or six years—ago. It's the work of work.

Believe it or not, the bigger problem isn't scaling, it's getting to the point where you have to scale. Without the first problem you won't have the second.

Don't mistake this approach for skimping on quality, either. You still want to make something great. This approach just recognizes that the best way to get there is through iterations. Stop imagining what's going to work. Find out for real.

No te has fijado que mientras que las empresas pequeñas quieren ser mayores, las grandes aspiran a ser más ágiles y flexibles?

If you absolutely have to work on long-term projects, try to dedicate one day a week (or every two weeks) to small victories that generate enthusiasm. Small victories let you celebrate and release good news. And you want a steady stream of good news. When there's something new to announce every two weeks, you energize your team and give your customers something to be excited about.

Start referring to your business plans as business guesses

Creativity, progress, and impact do not yield to brute force.

Break that long list down into a bunch of smaller lists. For example, break a single list of a hundred items into ten lists of ten items. That means when you finish an item on a list, you've completed 10 percent of that list, instead of 1 percent. Yes, you still have the same amount of stuff left to do. But now you can look at the small picture and find satisfaction, motivation, and progress. That's a lot better than staring at the huge picture and being terrified and demoralized.

Failure is not a prerequisite for success.

Nothing ever stops at the quarterly win. There are four quarters to a year. Forty to a decade. Every one of them has to produce, exceed, and beat EXPECTATIONS.

You don't have to live with a decision forever. If you make a mistake, you can correct it later.

If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse. —HENRY FORD