Quotes About Improvement

As Mac Lethal said to me, "Nobody remembers your bad stuff, just keep working at it and you'll put out good stuff and that's what they will see and remember.

You don't have to come up with the new, new thing. Just do the old, old thing slightly better than everyone else.

IMPROVE. You wanted that ONE job, that ONE scholarship, that TV show, that book, to sell your company, to sell your product, whatever. And they said, no. Take a hard look at the product. Can you improve your offering? Can you take a step back and improve what you are doing? Maybe you can and maybe you can't. But brainstorm first. What are the ten things you can do to improve what you are doing?

You have to ask good questions. "What can I do to improve?" or "How can I find a better job?" or "How can I be grateful that I lost this job?" Because inside of every problem is the seed of a "difficult gratitude problem" and it always improves your life to solve those problems.

One time someone wrote to us: "I'm applying all of the things you suggest, and I am coming up with a ton of ideas to improve my life. The only problem is, when I go out drinking with my friends on Friday night, they all laugh at the ideas. What should I do?" We wrote back: "Simple solution: stay home on Friday night.

There were about ten different areas I needed to improve and gradually I improved them all and sold the company a year later. EXPAND THE

Society is made up of individuals. The only way to improve society is to come at it from a place of deep, individual satisfaction. The only way to do that is to spend long periods of time just being silent. Find out who the real you is.

Finally, I started to care more about getting better than about winning. I started to study my losses. I would take my losses to my instructor and we would go over them. And that's how I went from expert-level to master-level.

The typical answer is "I study four hours a day.

You only get better if you lean in to the uncomfortable.

followed the one percent rule: improve one percent each day, in each of these areas of life.

improve one percent each day, in each of these areas of life.

The people in Harlem know they are living there because white people do not think they are good enough to live anywhere else. No amount of "improvement" can sweeten this fact. Whatever money is now being earmarked to improve this, or any other ghetto, might as well be burnt. A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.

Comfort is not the objective in a visionary company. Indeed, visionary companies install powerful mechanisms to create /dis/comfort--to obliterate complacency--and thereby stimulate change and improvement /before/ the external world demands it.

lasting transformations from good to great follow a general pattern of buildup followed by breakthrough.

The good-to-great companies did not focus principally on what to do to become great; they focused equally on what not to do and what to stop doing.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of a great company is that it doesn't stop trying to change, improve, and do new things. A great company never arrives, never believes that it is good enough.

purposeful evolution.

Accomplishing a 20 Mile March, consistently, in good times and bad, builds confidence. Tangible achievement in the face of adversity reinforces the 10X perspective: we are ultimately responsible for improving performance. We never blame circumstance; we never blame the environment.

It requires the discipline to say, "Just because we are good at it—just because we're making money and generating growth—doesn't necessarily mean we can become the best at it." The good-to-great companies understood that doing what you are good at will only make you good; focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.

focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness.

Good is the enemy of great. And

THE "FLYWHEEL EFFECT" The good-to-great companies understood a simple truth: Tremendous power exists in the fact of continued improvement and the delivery of results.

The troubling features of high modernism derive, for the most part, from its claim to speak about the improvement of the human condition with the authority of scientific knowledge and its tendency to disallow other competing sources of judgment.