Continual Improvement Quotes

• Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Money, Congratulations

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• Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Perfection, Improvement

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• Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

  William Pollard

  Creativity, Opportunity, Innovation

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• Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Philosophy, Practice

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.11, Jaico Publishing House

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• You want continual improvement? Then I challenge every employee in an organization to discard the status quo and ask themselves everyday, How can I improve my job?, then find a way to make it happen.

  John Novak

  Jobs, Organization, Challenges

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• To make the quickest progress, you don't have to take huge leaps. You just have to take baby steps-and keep on taking them. In Japan, they call this approach kaizen, which literally translates as 'continual improvement.' Using kaizen, great and lasting success is achieved through small, consistent steps. It turns out that slow and steady is the best way to overcome your resistance to change.

  Marci Shimoff

  Baby, Japan, Progress

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• There is always room for improvement.

  Rich Gunnell

  Self Improvement, Nucleus, Sushi

  Source: prod.www.chiefs.clubs.nfl.com

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• There's always room for improvement.

  Joey Logano

  Self Improvement, Nucleus, Sushi

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement

  William Pollard

  Creativity, Innovation, Inevitable Change

  "Why It’s Dangerous to Become ‘Too Comfortable’" by Alicia T. Glenn, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

  Steve Jobs

  Done, Improvement, Revolutionary

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• Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

  Kim Collins

  Perfection, Improvement, Strive

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• Continual improvement is an unending journey

  Lloyd Dobyns

  Journey, Improvement, Unending

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• In a world where routine production is footloose...competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away.

  Robert Reich

  Lying, Technology, Routine

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• When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture.

  John Novak

  Mistake, Culture, Improvement

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• Continual improvement involves an appreciation that there is always a better way to do things irrespective of how much you have achieved or how comfortable you might be with where you currently are in life. As a young international rugby player I learnt a valuable lesson about sacrifice. The bottom line was the phrase 'long after the price is forgotten the quality remains'. Undertaking JOLT Challenge involves sacrifice but it is well worth it as you explore creative and innovative ways of challenging yourself for constant improvement in many areas of life.

  Nick Farr-Jones

  Appreciation, Sacrifice, Player

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• Don't let the fear of statistics keep you from launching a continual improvement program. The statistics hurdle is easily overcome, going out of business is not.

  John Novak

  Overcoming, Going Out, Statistics

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• A robust internal auditing program shows its presence both at the beginning and end of continual improvement projects. In the beginning, internal audits identify opportunities for improvement, at the end, internal audits provide a mechanism for monitoring the implemented improvement in order to sustain its benefits for the long term.

  John Novak

  Opportunity, Order, Long

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• When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.

  Brad Lidge

  Careers, Pitching, Improvement

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• Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.

  Jonathan Swift

  Father, Lying, Devil

  Jonathan Swift (2011). “Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings”, p.558, Bantam Classics

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