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Growth Quotes


"Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum."


"There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth."


"Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth."


"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."


"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."


"To make mistakes is to live, because no one is born knowing everything."


"Life only plants the seeds. It's up to us to help them grow."


"You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging."


"Old habits for old people, reinvent yourself while you still can!"


"Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods."


"Life is a never ending journey of reaching out of our comfort zone. We can always reach new levels."


"The only way to eliminate the deficit in the long run is through growth."



"Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities."


"We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't."


"Those things that hurt instruct."


"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."


"When you look at the state of the economy right now, you have to set a priority. And my top priority is the deficit of jobs and economic growth, and especially this perception that the United States could be falling behind especially Asian economies."


"A touch less ego and dash more humility will improve the quality of anything you turn your hand to."


"I've noticed a growth in Spike and definitely in myself. I feel like the seeds that he planted in me five years ago have ripened up to a place where I could even tackle this role in the way that I did."


"If what you do doesn't make others better at what they do then you are not living up to your potential."


"As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities."


"The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself."


"The thing is, incremental daily progress (negative or positive) is what actually causes transformation. A figurative drip, drip, drip. Showing up, every single day, gaining in strength, organizing for the long haul, building connection, laying track - this subtle but difficult work is how culture changes."


"Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends, give me it all, you can't invest wisely."


"It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment."


"Our communications services revenue growth is being driven by continued strong top-line performance in data, Internet and international - three of the fastest growing and most profitable areas within communications services."


"The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme."



"Thus, the questions we should ask here are what makes the current economic upswing different from the past two recoveries, and whether such differences are sufficient for the economy to reach the sustained growth path."


"If you're not progressing, you're falling behind."


"Without appreciation (for yourself, others and life itself) there is no growth."


"Right!"Right!"You can get there!"I can get there!"You're a natural at counting to two!"I'm a nat'ral at counting to two!"If you can count to two, you can count to anything!"If I can count to two, I can count to anything!"And then the world is your mollusc!"My mollusc! What's a mollusc?"


"The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth."


"Independence and free thought is what makes a person grow. By giving people the freedom and space to figure out who they are and be that, you give them the power to grow."


"The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect."


"I have a high degree of confidence about India's growth potential in IT."


"Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another."


"The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline."


"Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched."
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