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Growth Quotes



"The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes."


"Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth."


"The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion."


"If you change who you are to suit other people, you may end up dressed for the wrong occasion."


"Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth."


"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."


"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying."


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


"It takes courage, motivation, discipline, and persistence to get out of comfort zone."


"The strongest principle of personal development is every person's ability to make conscious decisions how to act and determine what purpose he or she attempts to fulfill. People with a fixed mindset believe that their basic personal qualities such as intelligence, talent, and other skills are traits that are predetermined or fixed and they ignore opportunities for personal development. A person's growth mindset represents a belief that there are certain basic qualities that a person can cultivate through applied effort, if they exhibit a passion for learning, a resolute willingness to stretch their personality, and through fortitude make personal improvement despite experiencing initial hardships."


"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."


"To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself."


"Intelligence is just one dimension of ability. Don't limit yourself to it. Open up to instinct, intuition, creativity and thus possibility."


"You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it."


"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."



"But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented."


"We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."


"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."


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


"Create new avenues in your life by removing toxic people who defeat your purpose."


"Self-awareness is the key to find our uniqueness. The latter increases our chance to succeed in our personal, career, and business lives..."


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


"Jiu Jitsu is a vehicle for self-discovery and growth. It reminds me of my ego, of my insecurities, and of my shortcomings."


"But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind."



"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?"


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


"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."



"As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me."



"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."


"There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity."


"Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support."


"If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind... by going first, we can become first."


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



"I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck."


"One thing that I tell people all the time is, 'I'm not going to answer a call from you after nine o'clock at night or before nine o'clock in the morning unless it's an emergency'."


"Renewal of the mind is good for the soul because it allows you to be focused and gain understanding of your life choices. It allows you to renew your spirit and become uplifted filled with hope. Take a moment to transform those negative thoughts into something more positive. And, you will discover anything is possible when you believe."


"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."


"You can't rest on yesterday's growth. You must be dedicated to growing today... and every day."


"The investments of your youth, are drafts upon your old age. Invest sheer poetry in yourself."


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