Continuous Improvement Quotes

• To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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  No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.

  Tiger Woods

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Perfection, Improvement

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• Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.

  Robin Sharma

  Inspirational, Motivational, Powerful

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Mar 18, 2015

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• Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

  Denis Waitley

  Lessons To Be Learned, Alive, Process

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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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• Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

  Kim Collins

  Perfection, Improvement, Strive

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• Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

  Tom Peters

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Educational

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• ...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Learning, Mean, Data

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• Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Wise

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• Don't settle for mediocrity; never let good enough be good enough.

  Joel Osteen

  Letting Go, Mediocrity, Good Enough

  Joel Osteen (2012). “Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down

  Bruce Lee

  Thinking, Skills, Slow Down

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• The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.

  Masaaki Imai

  Business, Kaizen, Messages

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• We conquer by continuing.

  George Matheson

  Perseverance, Not Giving Up, Persistence

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• A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

  Jim Rohn

  Leadership, Insperational, Helping Others

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 23, 2015

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• If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .

  Oprah Winfrey

  Self, Expression, Growth

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.153, Macmillan

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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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• Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Design Process, Poor Quality

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• We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Business, Good Life

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [43]

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• Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.

  Don Meyer

  Motivational, Sports, Attitude

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• I'm never satisfied with what I do. I always think I can do it a lot better.

  Michael Jackson

  Inspirational, Thinking, African American

  Interview with Sylvie Simmons, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2009.

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  I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• It is impossible to improve any process until it is standardized. If the process is shifting from here to there, then any improvement will just be one more variation that is occasionally used and mostly ignored. One must standardize, and thus stabilize the process, before continuous improvement can be made.

  Masaaki Imai

  Variation, Shifting, Impossible

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• Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Mar 04, 2015

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