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Quote List for Continuous Improvement

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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.Bill Gates
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.Derek Bok
Progress is not created by contented people.Frank Tyger (1929-2011)
I’ve never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.Galileo (1564-1642)
Never be afraid of failure. The only way you can move from being a good leader to a very good one, even an excellent one, is by aiming higher. And that is bound to generate shortfalls.John Adair
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open.Lord Thomas R Dewar
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.Martin Luther King JR.
Strategy is a pattern in a stream of Actions.Mintzberg
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz
If a problem has no solution it may not be a problem but a fact – not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.Shimon Peres (1923-2016)
It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
Learning without action is like teaching a child to walk and watching them crawl everywhere.Steve Rush
I failed my way to success.Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
You don't have to be sick to get better.Unknown
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.W. Edwards Deming 1900-1993
Our fears are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.William Shakespeare (1564-1616)