Incremental Gains Quotes

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts.

Sometimes making progress a step at a time is better than no progress at all.

An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage.

In life or in football, touchdowns rarely take place in seventy yard increments. Usually it's three yards and a cloud of dust.

You can win with consistent benefits, delivered over time. You win by incrementally earning share, attention and trust.

Whatever you can handle, it's up to you. Pick something where you are going to do it to failure--in other words, where you can hardly do it. That's the key. So many people will just take five pound weights and do something 10 times. What are they getting out of it? Nothing! Say you are going to build up your bank account. If you put in a penny a day, it's going take a long while. It's the same with exercise--the more you put into it the more you take out.

For me, it's just about taking it one at-bat, one pitch, one play at a time.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

Progress can be unglamorous.

Development is an endurance exercise with incremental improvements.

Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.