Incremental Success Quotes

Success is achieved in inches, not miles.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

My career has been an inch at a time.

Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a lot easier to lay down a bunch of singles than it is to get a home run.

The ideal way to win a championship is step by step.

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

Just take one small victory at a time.

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.

I'm a firm believer that before you can go anywhere, you have to conquer the level that you are at, just like young kids do it today with video games, they have to finish one level to go to the next one. Conquer one level at the time, and only then you'll get where you want to go to.

A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory.

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

The great conquest is the result of small, unnoticed victories.

Science is so incremental and so full of setbacks and small steps forward. In order to really thrive in this business, you have to be able to glean as much joy from the failure days and from the small increments as you do from the breakthroughs.

I tell everybody take it one game at a time.

I always set small goals and work towards them to achieve them.

If you can somehow think and dream of success in small steps, every time you make a step, every time you accomplish a small goal, it gives you confidence to go on from there.

Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be the announcement only of a greater. Put not all your reserves into the first throw; the great trick is to dole out strength, and to dole out mind, in such a fashion as to bring forward increasingly the fulfillment of what was expected of you.

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

In women's football, you can't plan to go out and win everything in one season. It's not like that.

Over the last 20 years, I've worked on or invested in many companies that scaled to 100 million users or more. But here's the thing: You don't start with 100 million users. You start with a few. So, stop thinking big, and start thinking small.

The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,--at least apparently,--but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.

One game at a time - just win one game at a time.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.