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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change. -- Tom Peters
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. -- Tom Peters
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. -- Benjamin Franklin
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. -- John Locke
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable. -- William Pollard
Improvement is nature. -- Leigh Hunt
Change is easy. Improvement is far more difficult -- Ferdinand Porsche
Improvement is not enough, you also need innovation. -- Amit Kalantri
Improvement is not enough, you also needs innovation. -- Amit Kalantri
Commit to "CAN I!" - Constant And Never-Ending Improvement. -- Tony Robbins
Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before. -- Shigeo Shingo
Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new. -- Andy Hargreaves
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius. -- William Blake
Improvement of one's economic position is helped more by cool persistence than by hot enthusiasm. -- William Feather
There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business. -- Oscar De La Hoya
I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why. -- Patricia Richardson
Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn. -- W. Edwards Deming
I grew up with 'Roseanne'; I kind of adore her and stuff like' Home Improvement', really traditional American stuff. -- Jessie Cave
It's your living room, it's your life, go nuts. You like Home Improvement? Tape it and go over it like it's the Zapruder film. -- Dennis Miller
We only learn our limits by going beyond them. I propose that we all commit ourselves to the process of Constant and Never ending Improvement. -- Tony Robbins
What is the purpose of any one workout? Enjoyment? Improvement? Coach said so? Whatever, the hour you run often is the best hour of the day. -- Hal Higdon
The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy. -- Eliot Engel
I live in such a sweet world in the world of 'Home Improvement' that I tend to be drawn to stuff that's really on the other end of the spectrum entirely. -- Patricia Richardson
I want to say thank you to everybody at Hendrick Motorsports for their hard work...Obviousl y, the front row is very special, big thank you to Chevrolet and my awesome sponsor Lowe's Home Improvement ! -- Jimmie Johnson
I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that it's worried me about doing comedy because - how do I say this - I'm a much darker person than I was. -- Patricia Richardson
Everything is practice. -- Pele
Human improvement is from within outward. -- James Anthony Froude
Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection. -- Kim Collins
Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change. -- James Cash Penney
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. -- Frank Moore Colby
Everything is perfect and there is always room for improvement. -- Shunryu Suzuki
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. -- Hugh Blair
Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement. -- Shunryu Suzuki
No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance. -- Robert Holden
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family. -- Robert Foster Bennett
Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family. -- Robert Foster Bennett
Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day. -- Brian Tracy
The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life. -- Erno Rubik
The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state. -- John Ousterhout
There's always room for improvement, but the judges are looking for big airs and stylish tricks. -- Shaun White
Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement. -- Otto Weininger
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. -- Aldous Huxley
Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not. -- Bill Gates
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement. -- Winston Churchill
Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent. -- Maxwell Maltz
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility. -- Nancy Pelosi
Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today. -- Arthur Erickson
The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing. -- Michael Porter
You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman. -- Lionel Messi
There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. -- Fred Brooks
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. -- C. S. Lewis
Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people. -- Paul Wellstone
He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
You see, greatness for a state doesn't require some huge monument for all to see. It is not a journey to a particular destination - but a commitment to follow a course of constant and never-ending improvement. -- Sonny Perdue
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. -- Thomas Jefferson
I think the real reason for my improvement is because I had such a long period in the off-season just working as hard as I could on all my new dives; making sure I did lots of repetition to get them consistent. -- Tom Daley
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. -- Benjamin Franklin
Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side. -- Adolf Loos
The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is a mechanism to place laws under the microscope of revision and modernization until they resonate in tune with the methodological development and new administrative technologies. -- Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar. Such communication has always been... one of the primary sources of progress. -- John Stuart Mill
I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed. -- Steve Jobs
A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities. -- Thomas Jefferson
Vanity prevents improvement -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Self improvement is masturbation... -- Chuck Palahniuk
Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection. -- Mark Twain
Practice without improvement is meaningless. -- Chuck Knox
Practice only makes for improvement. -- Les Brown
There's always room for improvement. -- Joey Logano
All intellectual improvement arises from leisure. -- Samuel Johnson
There is always room for improvement. -- Rich Gunnell
Even perfection has room for improvement. -- Ty Warner
The never-ending task of self improvement. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking. -- Watts Humphrey
Continual improvement is an unending journey -- Lloyd Dobyns
Never neglect an opportunity for improvement. -- William Jones
...the change was adjustment without improvement. -- Toni Morrison
Fiction is an improvement on life -- Charles Bukowski
Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction... -- Brad Pitt
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. -- George Will
I definitely feel there's room for improvement. -- Roger Federer
Without standards, there can be no improvement. -- Taiichi Ohno
Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity. -- Alan Watts
For our improvement we need a mirror. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement! -- Eric Thomas
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Real improvement is of slow growth only. -- Seneca the Younger
Beer is an improvement on water itself. -- Grant Johnson
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. -- Mark Twain
Self-improvement comes mainly from trying to help others. -- John Templeton
There's no ceiling... just a continuation of improvement. -- Chris Weidman
Nothing makes a person desire improvement like failure -- Christopher Stocking
Changes made by management today make no improvement. -- Peter R. Scholtes
War erases progress, leaves no trace of improvement. -- Graeme Smith
Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement. -- Baltasar Gracian
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible -- Frank Moore Colby
I still have a lot of room for improvement. -- Johan Cruijff
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The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit. -- David Lee Roth
You must have a supplier relationship of constant improvement. -- W. Edwards Deming
I'm happy, but there is always room for improvement. -- Corey Perry
Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement. -- J. K. Rowling
There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement. -- Tom Peters
Permit no hour to go by without it due improvement. -- Thomas a Kempis
Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people -- C. S. Lewis
Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Faultfinding without suggestions for improvement is a waste of time. -- Ralph C. Smedley
My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement. -- Michael Merzenich
Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer. -- Chuck Palahniuk
What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement. -- William Hurt
Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement. -- George Szell
Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money. -- Masaaki Imai
Any advice which does not lead to self-improvement is misleading. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. -- Henry Ford
Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time. -- David Brainerd
The closest you can get to perfection is constant improvement. -- Brendan Brazier
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change. -- Edsger Dijkstra
To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement. -- Donald A. Norman

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