Quotes About Growth

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

When I was young, I was older than I am today.

The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it.

The First Book Open it. Go ahead, it won't bite. Well. . . maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world-- just the world as you think you know it.

Against Self-Pity It gets you nowhere but deeper into your own shit--pure misery a luxury one never learns to enjoy.

managers with a different mind-set start to become more important, and the business needs to become part of the parent corporation.

references to a few clear and simple strategic priorities, to the importance of building culture and developing talent, and to leveraging a few core capabilities.

Pursuing a strategy in which it has explicitly told investors that it will sacrifice some margin to sustain strong growth, it doubles down on investments made to create a compelling result

spend more time with a specific set of must-have customers, disproportionate to the revenue they might account for at that specific point of time; taking on projects which might not give high margins initially, but might eventually become big;

growth platforms." Each platform was given a specific broad domain that it could pursue, regardless of where the assets and people happened to be located within a particular business.

the "jobs to be done" perspective,3 "challenge-driven innovation,"4 or "needs-driven innovation"5—in which customer needs are inputs to a "growth factory," as my colleague Scott Anthony argues.

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.

Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

it decided last year to become a 'broad energy' firm, investing up to 15–20 percent of annual capital expenditure in 'new energy solutions' by 2030, mostly in offshore wind.

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

How fine to be willing to admit that one does not know what one does not know, instead of spewing out such nonsense and disgusting oneself!' (Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods).

Avoid constantly trying to adapt to situations, people, and other circumstances that have no value to your future. The phenomenon of always attempting to please and alter behavior is more likely to be unsuccessful then to enhance your life. Adapt by continuing to learn and improve your knowledge

Each time our heart is broken, we should learn a lesson and not repeat the same mistakes. However, often there is nothing we could have done to save the relationship.

Growth is a perpetual process that continues throughout our lives. And challenging ourselves is the foundation upon which growth is enhanced.

Life is a test, make sure you study for it.