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Growth Quotes


"I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new."


"In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple."


"We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth we've already been seeing in Colorado continue."


"Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth."


"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."


"A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero."


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


"And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance."


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


"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."


"For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own."


"I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth."


"A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it."


"Well, you can, but tell you this, that when you've got an economy that is growing at 4.9% it is the fastest growth over the last 12 months we've seen in 20 years."


"Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear."


"The most powerful words in the universe are the words you say to yourself."


"The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency."


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


"We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth."


"We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth."


"Every stage of life has its own challenges. Be grateful for each stage."


"Ernest Hemingway was a champion of the common man. He once said, "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self."


"It is a good initiative for the dreams that would change one society to be nursed in another environment, before being transplanted to strive in its original environment for the change process to begin!"


"Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!"


"Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous."


"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 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."


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


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


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


"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."


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


"Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale."


"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."


"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."


"Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security."



"If our mind remains freeze-framed by inhibiting and hampering habits, in an ever-changing world, we won't be able to get rid of that weird feeling of not belonging anywhere and not taking part in authentic life challenges. ['Not on the shortlist']"


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


"The only people capable of handling success are those who have learned to handle failures w/o taking their eyes off the prize."


"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."


"Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth it's a shield."


"He who matures early lives in anticipation."


"The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth."
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