Quotes About Progress

A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be.

He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.

The purpose of leadership is not to make the present bearable. The purpose of leadership is to make the future possible.

In times of change, learners inherit the earth

A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.

Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Adopt and change before any major trends or changes.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.

Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.

Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.

We must offer the world leadership designed to advance the goal of universal progress and enduring peace.