"Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new"
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The phrasing matters. “Little bit by little bit” is almost comically unglamorous, the opposite of highlight-reel culture. It suggests progress you can’t easily photograph: one cleaner lap, a slightly smarter line through a corner, a marginal gain in setup. In racing, that’s not motivational poster logic; it’s physics and timekeeping. Hundredths compound. So does discipline.
The subtext is also a warning about ego. “Not keeping starting everything from new” pushes back on a particular kind of impatience: the impulse to scrap systems, relationships, training routines, even identities the moment they stop delivering instant dopamine. Alesi is defending continuity as a competitive edge. Starting over feels brave because it looks dramatic; incremental improvement is harder because it’s repetitive, and repetition exposes you. You can’t hide behind the novelty of a fresh plan when the work is the point.
Culturally, it reads like an antidote to our endless “new era” announcements. Alesi’s version of growth is less reinvention than maintenance with ambition: keep the chassis, tune the engine, and take your gains where the stopwatch can actually prove them.
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"Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/experience-has-taught-me-that-you-have-to-improve-11870/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.









