Quotes About Improvement

My approach to criticism and what I teach and preach inside Amazon -- is when you're criticized, first look in a mirror and decide, are your critics right? If they're right, change. Don't resist.

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.

Usability testing is useful, necessary, and inefficient.

You are either improving or diminishing in personal and professional value.

Here's a slight edge action guaranteed to change your life: read just ten pages of a good book, a book aimed at improving your life, every day.

Like a penny over time, reading ten pages a day would compound, just like that, and create inside you a ten-million-dollar bank of knowledge.

The greatest gift you could ever give yourself is also the wisest business investment you could ever make. It is also the most critical step in accomplishing any challenging task, and is the one step without which all other success strategies, no matter how brilliant or time-tested, are doomed to fail. What is this mysterious gift? It is your own personal development. Investing in your own improvement, your own personal growth and betterment, is all these things and more.

little steps, compounded, do make a difference.

For things to change, you've got to change. For things to get better, you've got to get better. It's easy to do. But it's easy not to do, too.

If your goal in reading this book is to learn to write better stories, you've got the wrong goal.

I smile and start to count on my fingers: One, people are good. Two, every conflict can be removed. Three, every situation, no matter how complex it initially looks, is exceedingly simple. Four, every situation can be substantially improved; even the sky is not the limit. Five, every person can reach a full life. Six, there is always a win-win solution. Shall I continue to count?

Since the strength of the chain is determined by the weakest link, then the first step to improve an organization must be to identify the weakest link.

The entire bottleneck concept is not geared to decrease operating expense, it's focused on increasing throughput.

For the ability to answer three simple questions: 'what to change?', 'what to change to?', and 'how to cause the change?' Basically what we are asking for is the most fundamental abilities one would expect from a manager.

When a proto-type—a new initiative—doesn't work, we face two alternatives: one is to bitch about reality and the other is to harvest the gift it just gave us, the knowledge of what has to be corrected.

What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.

Something is always better than nothing" no matter how small that "something" is.

It's a simple and generous rule of life that whatever you practice, you will improve at.

It's a simple and generous rule of life that whatever you practice, you will improve at. For instance: If I had spent my twenties playing basketball every single day, or making pastry dough every single day, or studying auto mechanics every single day, I'd probably be pretty good at foul shots and croissants and transmissions by now.

Being a father would be different, harder, but might he not (if generations have told themselves the lie, then scan he) do it just a little better than his parents, pass on his best self, discard the rest, or at the very least, do his best by doing his best?

Error is the price we pay for progress.

In some measure or other, progress is always a transcendence of what is obvious.

Critics are best motivators.

A Muslim will never get tired and bored of educating himself throughout his life.