Small Wins Quotes:

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.

- Rosabeth Moss Kanter

source: "Building a winning boardroom team". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. May 16, 2005.

topic: Winning, Differences, Small Wins, Small Differences

You don't need a grand plan, you don't need to go back to the ancestors and rewrite the rules. You just need to take small steps and accumulate small wins.

- Bruce Feiler

source: "Writer Bruce Feiler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. March 20, 2013.

topic: Winning, Small Steps, Small Wins

Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments.

- Teresa Amabile

topic: Winning, Accomplishment, Track, Small Wins

Don't try to rush progress. Remember -- a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing.

- Kara Goucher

source: FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Jan 20, 2013

topic: Believe, Progress, Trying, Small Victories, Steps In The Right Direction

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Success, Leadership, Individual Performance, Marriage Advice

Win small, win early, win often.

- Gary Hamel

topic: Winning, Small Wins

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

- Howard Zinn

source: Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.208, Beacon Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Peace, Small Victories, Small Wins

A small win is a concrete, complete, implemented outcome of moderate importance. By itself, one small win may seem unimportant. A series of wins at small but significant tasks, however, reveals a pattern that may attract allies, deter opponents, and lower resistance to subsequent proposals. Small wins are controllable opportunities that produce visible results.

- Karl E. Weick

topic: Winning, Opportunity, Opponents, Small Wins

If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.

- Rosabeth Moss Kanter

topic: Leadership, Wisdom, Winning, Building Confidence, Small Wins

Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.

- Charles Duhigg

source: "The Power of Habit". Book by Charles Duhigg, February, 2012.

topic: Winning, Advantage, Application, Small Wins

In my teaching and consulting practice, I encourage people to learn to experiment with confidence and to see themselves as scientists in the laboratory of their lives, continually trying new ways to pursue what matters most to them and to the people who depend on them. Smart, small wins are crucial to this approach, as is devoting time and attention to reflecting on what works and what doesn't.

- Stewart D. Friedman

topic: Smart, Teaching, Winning, Small Wins, Consulting

Being naive simply means that we reject received wisdom that something is a problem. We are always naive relative to some definition of the situation, and if we try to become less so, we may accept a definition that confines the definition of small wins to narrower issues than is necessary.

- Karl E. Weick

topic: Mean, Winning, Issues, Small Wins