Quotes About Growth

She went out a girl, she returned home a woman.

As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, it must become natural for us to be humble.

Ronnie was actually right to push me toward returning to work. At least I would be exposed to more interesting people, events and conflicts. It wasn't difficult to raise the level over what I had now.

I thought about some of those happier moments in my marriage. I certainly had them. How could I deny the day Kelly was born and the way that had strengthened my relationship with Ronnie, for example? Of course, it did feel as if we were different people then. Time, experiences, events, even other people change us, and if we don't change together, we grow into strangers. Maybe that was all it was; it was no one's fault. Guilt has no place in evolution. It's beside the point.

I am sure I was babbling like some lovesick teenager. I shouldn't keep saying 'teenager'. Many of my so-called contemporary friends babble about their infatuations with this actor or that singer, too. Adolescence doesn't really disappear. It hides behind adult responsibility, poking its head out every time it has the opportunity. I

As I looked across the table at Ronnie and watched how he studied this uncomplicated menu, I wondered if the simple answer to all bad marriages is that one outgrows the other. Maybe people shouldn't marry until they're in their fifties.

They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.

Being young is a kind of warfare in which the great enemy is experience.

Siempre estoy dispuesto a aprender», diría Churchill en 1952, «aunque no siempre me guste que me den lecciones».

Progress is the principle of the human race

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

When you make some great mistake,' he philosophized, 'it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision.

The first time you meet Winston you see all his faults,' she told him, 'and the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.

In retrospect, it is fair to conclude that the message of Limits to Growth was not ignored. It did get through to the elites for whom it was prepared, and they responded by squirreling away whatever resources they could carry off from the commonwealth. Denial is the term commonly used to describe resistance to evidence of climate change and other ecological threats. Yet the cumulative record of this steady pillage suggests the opposite has been occurring.

Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction.

a strategic inflection point is a time in the life of business when its fundamentals are about to change. that change can mean an opportunity to rise to new heights. But it may just as likely signal the beginning of the end

The implication was that either the people in the room needed to change their areas of knowledge and expertise or people themselves needed to be changed

Peter Drucker quotes a definition of an entrepreneur as someone who moves resources from areas of lower productivity and yield to areas of higher productivity and yield.

The key to survival is to learn to add more value—and

Compaqs, Dells and Novells each of which emerged from practically nothing to become major corporations. What's the common among these companies is that they all instinctively followed the rules for success in a horizontal industry.

Once someone's source of motivation is self-actualization, his drive to perform has no limit. Thus, its most important characteristic is that unlike other sources of motivation, which extinguish themselves after the needs are fulfilled, self-actualization continues to motivate people to ever higher levels of performance.

if you base your business on the volume leader, you will be going after a larger business yourself

When the need to stretch is not spontaneous, management needs to create an environment to foster it.

Complacency often afflicts precisely those who have been the most successful.