Growth Quotes
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Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, the surer is its lasting success. Mushrooms attain their full power in a night; oaks require decades. A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries.
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Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in to fill it up.
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Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not as a prize at the end.
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It's also the environment that determines a considerable part of the growth and development of children.
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I think that France has not made it clear enough recently to our German friends how important it is to introduce euro bonds as a tool against speculation. And how the necessary budget discipline needs to be accompanied by growth.
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The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
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What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat
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I'd like to see an arrested growth of development. You can't stop it, but it's important we do something about the developers having the upper hand.
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Berkshire Hathaway can transfer excess capital from businesses that don't need it to businesses that do need it, tax free and in a way that enhances compound annual growth rates.
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It's difficult to sustain a growth rate like we've been seeing.
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To regulate something always requires two opposing factors. You cannot regulate by a single factor. To give an example, the traffic in the streets could not be controlled by a green light or a red light alone. It needs a green light and a red light as well. The ratio between retine and promine determines whether there is any motion, any growth, or not. Two different inclinations have to be there in readiness to make the cells proliferate.
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Growth is the goal, and that goal is never complete—art must be in constant change.
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Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.
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I think sometimes when you can feel the velocity of change, like nowadays, you really need a seat belt. It's almost like having a growth spurt that you can feel, like a 16-year-old who woke up one day and grew four inches literally overnight. That can be a painful thing sometimes.
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A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself.
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This transaction creates the preeminent global food and consumer goods company. Together we will have a portfolio of powerful worldwide and regional brands, with strong growth prospects.
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The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity. You are never too young to learn, never too old to change. Your yearnings to learn and change come from a divinely instilled striving for eternal progression. Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.
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When we are weak, we can still be strong. When we're under the greatest stress and facing the greatest challenges, it may be the best day of our lives, for God is working to make us into the people he wants us to be.
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How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is uncomfortable, but it's worse to thwart the ascent of your authenticity.
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In so many things, growth comes from adversity.
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In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.
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Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.
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If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize for that. I ought to prune, pare and extirpate excess growth, but I will not. I like words—strike that, I love words—and while I am fond of the condensed and economical use of them in poetry, in song lyrics, in Twitter, in good journalism and smart advertising, I love the luxuriant profusion and mad scatter of them too.
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I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all probability going to suffer a reaction. With world growth, and population as it is, this reaction must increase.
