#improve

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. ↗

— Stephen Covey

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I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always. ↗

— Mark Cuban

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Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#contrary #higher #improved #norm #technique

Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues. ↗

— Ernie Fletcher

#among #education #face #fellow #governors

Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks. ↗

— David Friedman

#corn #dramatically #efficiency #ethanol #going

Human improvement is from within outward. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#improvement #outward #within

Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#improves #material #never #quite #same

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. ↗

— Joseph Howe

#before #books #cannot #exclude #few

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#all things #even #gone #improved #neighbour

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

#another #bread #close #earned #free