If you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

Pat Riley

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.

Tom Peters

I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.

Tyra Banks

I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

Sam Walton

Kaizen means ongoing improvement involving everybody, without spending much money.

Masaaki Imai

It's relatively simple. If we're not getting more, better faster than they are getting more, better faster, than we're getting less better or more worse.

Example of a Lean Value Chain

Tom Peters

Listening to customers must become everyone's business. With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.

Tom Peters

Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.

Tom Peters

The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.

Tom Peters

Edwards Deming

Richard Koch

We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are.

Max DePree

No matter what your product is, you are ultimately in the education business. Your customers need to be constantly educated about the many advantages of doing business with you, trained to use your products more effectively, and taught how to make never-ending improvement in their lives.

Robert G. Allen

I feel like life is so special and so great, every year I feel like I learn more, and I grow, and I think it's exciting to grow up.

Gisele Budchen

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey.

Winston Churchill

We have learned how to develop five-minute and even one-minute managers. But we would do better to ask ourselves what it takes to be an executive who helps build a better future.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

There's no good idea that can't be improved on.

Michael Eisner

No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't.

James Cash Penney

We need to make sure we have the best people we can in our operations, and that is a constant challenge. There is always room to improve.

James Packer

An open society calls itself open to improvement. It is based on the recognition that people have divergent views and interests, and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth.

George Soros

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Brian Tracy

Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.

Brian Tracy

Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.

Brian Tracy

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way. Remember the Japanese concept of Kaizen. Small daily improvements eventually result in huge advantages.

Bob Parsons