Explains a lot

A patient cured is a customer lost.

~  John D. Rockefeller

If the shoe fits...

Some people run away by packing their bags.

Others run away by staying in the same place too long.

~ Martha, Baby Reindeer, Episode 1 

Embrace the chase

We are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well that we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect.

But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence.  

I am not remotely interested in just being good.

~ Vince Lombardi 

Compound Interest

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. 

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

~ C.S. Lewis

Simply put - we keep doing things the old way

Path Dependence Feedback Loop

A "path dependence feedback loop" refers to a situation where initial choices or events create a self-reinforcing cycle, meaning that the early decisions progressively lock a system into a particular path, making it increasingly difficult to change direction due to the accumulated effects of those initial choices, often creating a positive feedback loop where the initial trend further strengthens itself over time.

Tale as old as time...

"How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.  

“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” 

~ Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

Truth

One day you will bury your father and that day you will realize you lost the only man who wanted to see you do better than him.

~ found on the interwebs

Not a bad idea

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

~ Thomas Paine