Quotes About Growth

consider how the world might be different if more of us conducted our social, business, and romantic lives with the belief that small steps matter, that even the shortest contact with another person is inherently important.

Kaizen offers the possibility that through small acts of kindness, and even small moments of compassion and curiosity, we can change ourselves—and, eventually, humanity.

When life gets scary and difficult, we tend to look for solutions in places where it is easy or at least familiar to do so, and not in the dark, uncomfortable places where real solutions might lie.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

Childhood and youth are no time to get an education. They are the time to get ready to get an education.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

learn something, and grow wiser.

have observed that most would rather remain within the comfort of their realities

it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

Most people would rather live within their means than expand their means.

Once you have decided to concentrate on minding your own business—focusing your efforts on acquiring assets instead of a bigger paycheck—

I cut and review my mistakes and take the lessons.

So why should investing be any different?

Our overall philosophy is to plant seeds inside my asset column. That is my formula. We start small and plant seeds. Some grow; some don't.

School has conditioned us to avoid mistakes—and punishes students for making them. In the real world, I've learned that mistakes—if acknowledged and evaluated and used as a tool to make better decisions in the future—are invaluable. A little fear can be a healthy thing, but we shouldn't live in fear of making mistakes. Mistakes are good things, if we find the lesson in every failure.

Tu problema es que tu índice de fracaso es muy bajo. Si quieres aprender a vender tienes que fracasar con más rapidez».

with money comes great power that requires the right knowledge to keep it and make it multiply.

You'd best change your point of view. Stop blaming me and thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something, and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change but themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

La vida nos empuja a todos. Algunos se rinden y otros luchan. Algunos aprenden las lecciones y continúan, reciben con alegría los embates porque saben que los empujones significan que necesitan —y deben— aprender algo. Saben que tienen que aprender y continuar viviendo. Pero son muy pocos. La mayoría sólo renuncia. Algunos, como tú, pelean.

you cannot change your past, but you can change your opinion of your past.

If you can't make up your mind decisively, then you'll never learn to make money anyway.

There are many things I have done in the past that I am not proud of and would not do again.

hold on to your share of that abundance.

There are many dear friends and loved ones that I hurt along the way.