Quotes about Progress

The distance between who I am, and who I want to be is measure only, by my actions.

Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

Plans let past drives the future.

You have to keep asking yourself if the way you're working today is the way you'd want to work in 10, 20, or 30 years. If not, now is the time to make a change, not "later.

We've frequently been trapped by things that used to work well but no longer do.

Decisions are progress. Each one you make is a brick in your foundation. You can't build on top of "We'll decide later," but you can build on top of

If you want to make a product better, you have to keep tweaking, revising, and iterating. The same thing is true with a company.

Remember: Deadlines, not dreadlines.

This real world sounds like an awfully depressing place to live. It's a place where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts always lose. The only things that win are what people already know and do, even if those things are flawed and inefficient.

In this world very few leaps of progress arrive exclusively as benefits

You can't build on top of "We'll decide later," but you can build on top of "Done.