Quotes About Multiplication

Neil Cole wryly notes, "If you can't reproduce disciples, you can't reproduce leaders. If you can't reproduce leaders, you can't reproduce churches. If you can't reproduce churches, you can't reproduce movements."32

Every person—including you—has been given a gift by God. Every gift is of immense value, no matter how it might compare to someone else's gifts. No one got a cheap or valueless gift from God. Every gift has the capacity to multiply (and is meant to do so). The gifts are essentially "on loan," meant to be stewarded.

The best part of it for me personally was that every time I saw a new Walgreen's store going up it meant new business. This sort of multiplication was clearly the way to go. I spent less and less time chasing pushcart vendors around the West Side and more time cultivating large accounts where big turnover would automatically winch in sales in the thousands and hundreds of thousands.

So, where does all that stuff come from? It comes from three main sources: stuff is bought and kept out of fear; stuff is collected and kept out of love. And stuff is kept and multiplied out of habit (Happy Starts at Home: Getting the Life You Want by Changing the Space You've Got, Rebecca West)

Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?

Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? This was the question Adrian's fragment set off in me. There had been addition—and subtraction—in my life, but how much multiplication? And this gave me a sense of unease, of unrest.

You bet on a relationship, it fails; you go on to the next relationship, it fails too: and maybe what you lose is not two simple minus sums but the multiple of what you staked. That's what it feels like, anyway. Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

I can't multiply myself out of a paper bag. But when it comes to roots, I'm your man.

If a person cannot deal properly with what he has been given, God will never multiply what he has

God is the God of multiplication and a careless attitude toward the business of the kingdom bring regret to Him

Commerce is no other than the traffic of two individuals, multiplied on a scale of number; and, by the same rule that Nature intended the intercourse of two, she intended that of all!

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world

Only in the world of mathematics do two negatives multiply into a positive.

That good diffused may more abundant grow.

Remember, only what you give can God multiply back. If you give nothing, and even if God were to multiply it, it would still be nothing!

A rib... loaves and fish... some spit... God can do a lot with a little.

God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.

God's goal is to multiply His people

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.