Quotes About Growth

These companies know that at their current size they're not going to be big enough to have the necessary capital, and they don't have enough spectrum to get to the third generation.

Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's a big load off my shoulders now. Now that I'm there, I'm like, man, I can breathe a little bit, you know?

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.

At its August 7, 2007, meeting, the FOMC had concluded that 'although the downside risks to growth have increased somewhat, the Committee's predominant policy concern remains the risk that inflation will fail to moderate as expected.' How's that going?, many of us thought when we read the statement. The predominant concern is inflation? Many Fed watchers blinked in disbelief. What were those guys thinking?

I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.

Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take no care to stop them.

Poor Dad. I suspect he was a lonely man. He did not mean to crush my delight in my little book of magic windows and he certainly prepared me for LIFE – which is a spark of delight buried under routines disciplines possessions plans and compromises which are meant to protect it, help it grow, make it useful to other people, and which eventually smother and kill it.

Ma forse in ogni caso è difficile rimanere amici per tutta la vita. In realtà, a un certo momento, ognuno di noi cambia, diviene diverso, alcuni vanno avanti, altri rimangono fermi, e insomma ci incamminiamo in direzioni opposte, sicché non c'è più incontro, non c'è più nulla in comune. [Quaderno proibito]

Op zijn twintigste is iedereen intelligent; met de tijd wordt het steeds moeilijker om intelligent te blijven. Maar misschien leer je dan ter compensatie om gelukkig te zijn.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.