Top 95 Incremental Quotes
#1. I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years ... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else, it's a pattern, it's a mosaic.
Gustav Nossal
#3. companies that tie up very little extra working capital with incremental sales tend to be more attractive.
Lawrence A. Cunningham
#4. If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.
Tony Judt
#5. Leadership reveals itself in the big moments, but is forged in the small. It is the exponential and compounding product of our many incremental behaviors and actions; all of which arise out of our choices in values, beliefs & emotions. Choices all. Not a one is thrust upon us.
Christopher Babson
#6. My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.
Nancy Pelosi
#7. I don't want to make an incremental change in some technology in my life. I want to create a whole new technology, and one that is aimed at helping humanity at all levels regardless of geography or ethnicity or age or gender.
Elizabeth Holmes
#8. Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.
William P. Young
#9. Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.
Bernard Ebbers
#10. Many of the high-return projects are high risk, which is why I suggest you forget the idea of looking at risk at all. Manage the risk by using an incremental or, even better, agile approach to the project. Start with your organization's context of what moves the organization ahead instead of risk.
Anonymous
#11. 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.
John Wooden
#12. Shun the incremental and go for the leap.
Jack Welch
#13. The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
Naomi Wolf
#14. Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.
David Galenson
#15. You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.
Sam Altman
#16. Happiness is the offspring of concentrated action. Excellence is achieved through the progressive realization of incremental goals along the path of your life's mission.
Robin Sharma
#17. Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
Marilyn Ferguson
#18. You cannot "disrupt" without incremental innovation being part of the process.
Pearl Zhu
#19. It's also true that many companies get comfortable doing what they have always done, with a few incremental changes. This kind of incrementalism leads to irrelevance over time, especially in technology, because change tends to be revolutionary not evolutionary.
Eric Schmidt
#20. Because genes work in combination, the incremental effect of adding a new gene to a genome may be not linear, but exponential.
Gary F. Marcus
#21. Steady, sustained, and incremental spiritual progress produces the fruit of steadfastness-and helps us to reduce the disparity between what we know and what we do. Testimony is strengthened and conversion unto the Lord is deepened through small and simple things done well over time.
David A. Bednar
#22. Unwavering incremental change can create remarkable and monumental results.
Ryan Lilly
#23. I am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, because those are in some ways the most hopeful.
Leni Zumas
#24. It's probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time.
Kathleen Parker
#25. I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, 'Wow.' Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.
Ashton Kutcher
#26. We have had significant success in the reduction of salt in food, but it has to be understood that this can only be achieved working with the industry on a voluntary basis ... and it can only be done on an incremental basis.
Andrew Lansley
#27. Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
Larry Page
#28. Targeted marketing delivers a lower customer acquisition cost and gets you to profitable growth faster. The goal is to quickly identify the costs associated with acquiring your most profitable segment of customers and the incremental value - if any - of going beyond your core.
Jay Samit
#29. Nothing ever really happens, you know. Life is infinitesimal and incremental and inconsequential.
Sherman Alexie
#30. You don't have to submerge. Just take a D.I.P. in Daily Incremental Progress.
Ryan Lilly
#31. Patience is not waiting; it is a quality of waiting.
Sharon Weil
#32. The beauty of agile comes in with its incremental nature and use of empiricism to focus on three "I"s - Interaction, Iteration, and Improvement.
Pearl Zhu
#33. Evolution and incremental change is important and we need it, but we're desperate for real revolution and that requires a different type of courage and creativity.
Brene Brown
#34. School improvement is not a mystery. Incremental, even dramatic improvement is not only possible but probable under the right conditions.
Michael J. Schmoker
#35. The reality is that most innovative work is incremental improvement. It's about staying ahead of trends as opposed to reacting to trends.
Bill Sheridan
#36. I have a feeling there is no ideal situation, unless she could go back in time and be 22 again. I think some of it is just kind of the shock of realizing that you're approaching middle age, or that you are middle-aged and kind of coming to terms with that in whatever incremental ways.
Amanda Peet
#37. With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries.
Aubrey McClendon
#38. I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.
Martin Amis
#39. The incremental approach without a strategy doesn't improve the strategy.
Pete Hegseth
#40. I love writing in compressed time periods because the act of survival in the midst of panic and fear, that's where true heroism comes. If you have a uniform, and you're expected to do things, it's a sort of incremental heroism.
Peter Landesman
#41. You can do almost anything if you are willing to clarify your commitments and make incremental investments over time to achieve them.
Michael Hyatt
#42. The government is also looking at further benefits including enhanced capital allowances; the use of Tax Incremental Finance; and extra help from UK Trade and Investment on inward investment and trade opportunities.
Andy Sawford
#43. When I'm writing a score, I'm constantly looking for ways to improve on it, even when I think it's working well. I don't give up on things, and am always trying to make incremental improvements, which means I never finish writing a score early!
Geoff Zanelli
#44. In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
Gary Hamel
#45. Like the battleships of old, omnibus programs present too tempting a target, too easily destroyed by a single attack, to make it through a fight ... It is through incremental change after change, step after step, that a statesman of today can vindicate a bold vision.
Dick Morris
#46. The maximalist demand of a complete ban on weapons, and the 'incremental steps' towards disarmament are both jammed. Will advancing IHL help both of these processes?
Jonathan Granoff
#47. Ideally, the ISS program will just be one more incremental step on an expanding, incredible journal of exploration and understanding, taking us higher and farther.
Ron Garan
#48. Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.
Alan S. Kesselheim
#49. I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.
Kathleen Battle
#50. One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.
Georges St-Pierre
#51. I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.
Michelle Obama
#53. The incremental approach to change is effective when what you want is more of what you've already got.
Richard Pascale
#54. As an investor with small capital, one should prefer businesses that have high returns on capital and that require little incremental investment to grow.
Warren Buffett
#55. One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.
Phil Hartman
#56. We gauge what we think is possible by what we know from experience, and our acceptance of scientific insights, in particular, is incremental, gained one experience at a time.
Bernd Heinrich
#57. You just have to be opportunistic, and try to figure out what creates value.. where the bottom is, what creates incremental value, and in what combinations.
John C. Malone
#58. On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers - and there could be a lot of them - will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.
Howard Schultz
#59. The value any business creates, listed or not, is determined by the rate at which it deploys incremental capital. And
Lawrence A. Cunningham
#60. Certain barriers do require a critical mass of action at the right time to overcome the inertia that is greater than incremental change.
David Jaber
#61. Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii - the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement.
Will Wright
#62. In 1975, Congress passed a law requiring fuel efficiency standards to double over 10 years, with incremental targets that auto manufacturers were required to meet. That was the responsible approach, and it worked. But since 1985, we've done nothing - even as technology has moved at light speed.
Michael Bloomberg
#63. Open source isn't about saving money, it's about doing more stuff, and getting incremental innovation with the finite budget you have.
Jim Whitehurst
#64. Effective prevention of mass killings is incremental and its heroes are invisible.
Timothy Snyder
#65. I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime patterns emerging, and there's a sort of a rubber band effect that happens where social growth and change is concerned.
LeVar Burton
#66. Incremental change is better than ambitious failure ... Success feeds on itself.
Tal Ben-Shahar
#67. The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts of consciousness go down, also.
Michael Leunig
#68. You got to be careful to not get too comfortable with incremental improvement. I think sometimes you just got to jump off a ledge.
Merlin Mann
#69. Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
James Lee Burke
#70. Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
Eckhard Pfeiffer
#71. confidence to define success and failure for herself who succeeds. These words were not invented for an incremental life. "Success" and "failure" serve a world that is black-and-white. And as I said before, it's all just kinda gray.
Sophia Amoruso
#72. Having acquired an espresso machine as good as a solid e-61 and a very good grinder, your incremental dollars will be best spent on either buying truly badass coffee, or setting up a roasting setup yourself that with lots of effort will allow you to produce high end roasted coffee.
Ken Fox
#73. I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal.
Ralph Webster
#75. I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.
Wes Bentley
#76. Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.
John P. Kotter
#77. In a more incremental world, attributions and rewards will still be contested, no doubt, but particular outcomes will no longer make or break lives.
Jaron Lanier
#78. Wars do not always begin with an abrupt, cymbal-crash rupture of conditions properly characterized as peace. There can be almost seamlessly incremental transitions.
George Will
#79. Trees, their incremental gymnastics and noisy silence, are another wonder of Outside to me.
David Mitchell
#80. incremental development can be disconcerting for teams and management who aren't used to it because it front-loads the stress in a project.
Steve Freeman
#81. If you're worried about putting food on the table or putting a roof over your head, that stress is definitely will contribute to unhappiness, but once you have your basic needs met then incremental money.
Tony Hsieh
#82. The iterative piece of agile can be defined by four key terms: iterative, feature-based, timeboxed, and incremental.
Jim Highsmith
#83. When people tell me they're trying to meditate, I always know they don't have a format yet that works. I encourage a real meditative format that you use daily, because meditation is incremental and it only works if done every day.
Deborah King
#84. Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch.
Rick Pitino
#85. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product. The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.
Steve Martin
#86. Learn about the key developer tasks that you will need to perform when developing a Windows Store business app. Included are tasks for pages, touch, validation, application data, tiles, search, performance, testing, extended splash screens, incremental loading, and the Prism libraries.
Anonymous
#87. There are no 'holds.' Everyday you're either willing to buy more at the current price, or, if you aren't, you should redeploy the capital to something you believe does deserve incremental capital.
Lee Ainslie
#88. The things that happen are an earthquake, another bomb in Iraq, some big jolt on Wall Street in oil prices, and then you have some new study on drought patterns from climate change. Or another little incremental improvement in photovoltaics. Where do those fit in to the daily stream? They don't.
Andrew Revkin
#89. Chobani did a really wonderful yogurt campaign on 'Instagram' to shift perceptions away from the fact that they were just yogurt. And they had a 7-point incremental lift on shifting that perception through a brand advertisement on Instagram.
Kevin Systrom
#90. I can tell you many reasons why environmental stories don't get adequate attention in conventional media. Basically, environmental risks don't fit the norms of journalism. They're incremental. We hate incremental.
Andrew Revkin
#91. Although scientific revolutions in how we see the world do occur, the bulk of our scientific understanding comes from the cumulative impact of numerous incremental studies that together paint an increasingly coherent picture of how nature works.
Michael E. Mann
#92. Surely a program of incremental reforms, of cautious steps, is the wisest way to proceed? You show xtraordinary erudition for an eighth-stratum, Archivist. I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps." We
David Mitchell
#93. Remember, everything you are building today will be killed or iterated. The former is more likely than the latter. Great products are created by many incremental improvements.
Justin Kan
#94. In an increasingly non-linear economy, incremental change is not enough-you have to build a capacity for strategy innovation, one that increases your ability to recognize new opportunities.
Gary Hamel
#95. From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.
David Suzuki
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