Quotes About Growth

A wise business executive once said that in order to "grow as a leader" a person must feel "a strong will to modify the environment to make it better, then create challenging situations that (he or she) can't get out of except by changing.

You've got to want to change, know how to change, and give yourself the chance to change.1

this would involve moving incrementally from the negative state to another state which is only somewhat negative; confusion, for example. From the somewhat negative state, a small but significant step can be made to a state that is slightly positive; let's say curiosity about what might happen next. It is then relatively simple to take a step from the somewhat positive state to the desired state of motivation.

all problems can be reperceived as challenges, or "opportunities" to change, grow or learn.

Only later in life did I learn that failure can be the best teacher

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

With declining state and local spending, total public spending on education, infrastructure, and basic research has dropped from 12 percent of GDP in the 1970s to less than 3 percent in 2011.

There's no problem with borrowing from the future in order to finance investments in the future.

In 1934, when the economy began emerging from the bottom of the Great Depression, it grew 7.7 percent. The next year it grew more than 8 percent. In 1936 it grew a whopping 14.1 percent.

The threat to capitalism is no longer communism or fascism but a steady undermining of the trust modern societies need for growth and stability.

The threat to capitalism is no longer communism or fascism but a steady undermining of the trust modern societies need for growth and stability. When most people stop believing they and their children have a fair chance to make it, the tacit social contract societies rely on for voluntary cooperation begins to unravel. In its place comes subversion, small and large—petty theft, cheating, fraud, kickbacks, corruption. Economic resources gradually shift from production to protection.

Growth of Average Hourly Compensation and Productivity, 1947–2008

The problem was not that Americans spent beyond their means but that their means had not kept up with what the larger economy could and should have been able to provide them. the American economy had been growing briskly, and America's middle class naturally expected to share in that growth. But it didn't. A larger and larger portion of the economy's winnings had gone to people at the top.

For three decades almost all the gains from economic growth have gone to the top. In the 1960s and 1970s, the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans got 9–10 percent of our total income. By 2007, just before the Great Recession, that share had more than doubled, to 23.5 percent. Over the same period the wealthiest one-tenth of 1 percent tripled its share. We haven't experienced this degree of concentrated wealth since the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century.

Si la vida fuera siempre fácil, sería insípida

From "The Book That Changed My Life": -"But your journey is never over until you return from it to share with society what you have learned." ~ Robert Ballard -"We never anticipate being changed by what we read. Such an experience cannot be planned for." ~ Brother Christopher

Having a self-published book is akin to having a newborn baby - if you don't give it the loving care and attention it deserves, it will die.

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

Forget the past, let the dead bury the dead. Things were working out fine, and that was the only thing he had to remember.

The law of change says, "Things do not stay the same. If they don't get better, they get worse." If relationships do not get stronger, they will get weaker; if they do not become closer, they will become more distant; if they do not become more productive, they will become less productive.

It is better to manage changes skillfully than to just let life happen to you.

As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.