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Growth Quotes
"Only through the conversion of time can territories be conquered."
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"The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime."
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"Old habits for old people, reinvent yourself while you still can!"
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"For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better."
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"All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by the things we wanted - the extension of unemployment insurance and middle class tax cuts. An estate tax for millionaires adds exactly zero jobs. A tax cut for billionaires - virtually none."
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"There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth."
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"In order to achieve optimal economic growth, Congress must adhere to sane spending guidelines while promoting smart policies devoted to growing businesses and creating jobs."
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"Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth."
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"We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop."
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"I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."
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"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."
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"If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom."
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"You can't rest on yesterday's growth. You must be dedicated to growing today... and every day."
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"A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to."
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"The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme."
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"The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery."
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"If what you are able to give to others, in this life, is only proportionate to what you received from people in your past- it only means one thing. You are a victim of life's circumstances, a direct and utter equivalent of what has been done to you. Rise above and become more! Be better than what happened to you."
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"The loveliest flowers sometimes grow in the ugliest places."
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"Immigration is not just compatible with but is a necessary component of economic growth."
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"I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment."
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"I have a high degree of confidence about India's growth potential in IT."
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"Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities."
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"Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation."
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"Never mock a cub, one day it will become a lion."
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"I made my name. What does this mean? It means you continually engaged in educating yourself, undertaking and fulfilling your responsibility and learned never to give up regardless of your circumstances."
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"Without economic growth and job creation in Mexico, we won't be able to confront the migratory phenomenon."
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"The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself."
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"But the real growth I must say in terms of the public sector for the Labor Department is really at state and local levels. That's where the real opportunities are today."
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"It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment."
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"The world's a headmaster who works on your faults. I don't mean in a mystical or Jesus way. More how you'll keep tripping over a hidden step, over and over, till you finally understand: Watch out for that step! Everything that's wrong with us, if we're too selfish or too Yessir, Nosir, Three bags full sir or too anything, that's a hidden step. Either you suffer the consequences of not noticing your fault forever or, one day, you do notice it, and fix it. Joke is, once you get it into your brain about that hidden step and think, Hey, life isn't such a shithouse after all again, then BUMP! Down you go, a whole new flight of hidden steps.There are always more."
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"Dwelling among shipwrecked dreams and losing oneself in wishful thinking cannot be a solution to tribulations. Identifying cracks and apprehending the defaults in one's life is essential to find a way to get out of a ghetto and to start a search for a new haven. ['The world was somewhere else']"
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"Great things sometimes have small beginnings."
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"Be prepared to change yourself if you think there is a need to change your environment."
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"It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being."
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"Unless and until we change, we cannot grow. What's life without growth?"
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"The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal."
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"Without appreciation (for yourself, others and life itself) there is no growth."
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"It takes courage, motivation, discipline, and persistence to get out of comfort zone."
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"Your daily habit is one of the most important predictors of the quality of your life."
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"A challenge only makes you stronger, wiser and a better person than you was yesterday."
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