Quotes About Growth

Organizations that scale well are filled with people who talk and act as if they are in the middle of a manageable mess.

The fourth big lesson is that scaling starts and ends with individuals—success depends on the will and skill of people at every level of an organization.

people "who don't have a chance to take revenge are forced, in a sense, to move on and focus on something different.

Most public companies spend less than 2 percent of their annual budgets on R&D.

The lesson from the Big Mac story is that innovations that ought to be scaled won't happen everywhere but can happen anywhere.

That "telling them where they stand, while giving them the chance to try a new environment, is often enough to get them to change their behavior.

Effective scaling depends on believing and living a shared mindset throughout your group, division, or organization.

When big organizations scale well, they focus on "moving a thousand people forward a foot at a time, rather than moving one person forward by a thousand feet.

When we abide in Christ like a branch in a vine, we'll produce a vintage life.

The hypermature man wants laughter, warmth, and closeness, but doesn't know how to achieve them and has difficulty letting himself go long enough to try. Change is slow for him, and he needs a patient partner who can see a great person behind the seriousness. Besides, he will never let you down.

We seldom see these things in ourselves until we have a reason to look. We are probably all like the heroes we had when we were boys.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841

Chief among these headwinds is the rise of inequality that since 1970 has steadily directed an ever larger share of the fruits of the American growth machine to the top of the income distribution.

The new element in part III is the headwinds—inequality, education, demography, and debt repayment—that are buffeting the U.S. economy and pushing down the growth rate of the real disposable income of the bottom 99 percent of the income distribution to little above zero.

Inequality can be alleviated and productivity growth promoted by combating overly zealous and regressive regulations

Unlike IR #2, the digital revolution IR #3 had a less powerful overall effect on productivity growth, and the main effect of its inventions occurred in the relatively short interval of 1996 to 2004, when the invention of the Internet, web browsers, search engines, and e-commerce created a fundamental change in business practices and procedures that was reflected in a temporary revival of productivity growth.

Since 2000, we have seen a sharp decline in growth in output per person and its two components—growth in productivity and in hours of work per person—after corrections for the ups and downs of the business cycle. Because the basic data are unambiguous in registering a significant and deepening growth slowdown, the book's title, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, has become a statement of fact.

The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in.

For who has despised the day of small things? – Zechariah 4:10

Grow up in all things into Him who is the head – Christ. – Ephesians 4:15

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. – 2 Peter 3:18

Emotions come and go; attitudes come and grow.

Our thoughts are like seeds that produce crops.

Hundreds of young barefoot, long-haired, newly converted believers flocked to the church, and they brought their guitars with them.