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...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means.
Sep 15, 2025
You're always getting a perfect vibrational match to what you predominantly give your attention to. But you've got to make the best of it. You've got to vibrate slightly different from where you are if you are going to improve where you are. You can't keep taking score of where your business is or your relationship is or your body is without continuing to create it as it is. To make improvement, you've got to reach for a different thought.
In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.
Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
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.
Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day.
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
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.
We conquer by continuing.
It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification
An act of leadership is to say that whatever's happening now is not good enough and suggest or show that we can do better. If you don't have that, then you don't have the catalyst for continuous improvement.
The characteristic feature of modern capitalism is mass production of goods destined for consumption by the masses. The result is a tendency towards a continuous improvement in the average standard of living, a progressing enrichment of the many.
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.
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.
Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement
The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete.
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
Pause and remember - Every single event in your life, especially the difficult lessons, have made you smarter, stronger, and wiser than you were yesterday. Be thankful!
The twins are talented, quality people who have shown continuous improvement in all aspects of their game since joining the Canucks.
If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let go of standards of perfection and refuse to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility.
Every relationship, every situation is part of a divinely created and highly specific curriculum for your soul growth
In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself.
This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.
You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know.
Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.
Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.
We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves.
I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!
You always want to be better than you are. No matter what, I think that's important.
Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Don't settle for mediocrity; never let good enough be good enough.
If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression .
No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.
As you experience success in applying kaizen to clear goals like weight loss or career advancement, remember to hold onto its essence: an optimistic belief in our potential for continuous improvement.
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. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.
Be the change you want to see in your networks
Be the change you want to see.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.