12 improvement quotes to get your organisation thinking (and improving!) in 2012

As the 12 days of Christmas draw to an end we thought this year we would offer you 12 improvement quotes to get you really thinking about how you could improve your organisation in 2012.

Take a copy of these, share them with your team or pin them on your desk and over the next 12 days sit back and really think how you could use these quotes for the betterment of your organisation in 2012.

Enjoy and improve!!

Day 1
“Small opportunities are often the beginning of Great Enterprises”

Demosthenes

Day 2
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation…..We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit”

Aristotle

Day 3
“Continuous Improvement is better than delayed perfection”

Mark Twain

Day 4
“The ideal organisation, and the one with the best chance of success, is one where if you ask anyone, from the chairman down to the newest recruit on the shop floor, what is the business trying to do, you would get the same answer”.

Sir John Harvey Jones

Day 5
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing”.

Albert Schweitzer

Day 6
“We must plan for the future, because people who stay in the present will remain in the past”.

Abraham Lincoln

Day 7
“A fool only learns from his own mistakes, an expert learns from others”.

Otto Von Bismark

Day 8
“We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising. A wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation”.

Gaius Petronius Roman author 70 AD

Day 9
“All I had to do was focus”.

Linford Christie

Day 10
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can.....begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it”.

Goethe

Day 11
“It’s not the strongest or the fittest that survive but the most adaptable”.

Charles Darwin

Day 12
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm”.

Ralph Waldo Emerson