Quotes About Growth

On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.

growth solely accounted for by immigration – led to the usual strains

We do not live our lives and experience our existence as solved beings.

Sea como fuere, toda exhibición de virtud requiere exagerar los problemas, lo que a su vez hace que los problemas crezcan todavía más.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

an economic operating system designed by thirteenth-century Moorish accountants looking for a way to preserve the aristocracy of Europe has worked as promised. It turned the marketplace into one giant debtors' prison. It is not only unfit for the needs of a twenty-first-century digital society; central currency is the core mechanism of the growth trap.

A nongrowing company can be tremendously prosperous and deliver the vast majority of that prosperity to its shareholders. It just might not come in the form of a rising share price, which is the only metric most shareholders understand. That's why shareholders need to be trained to value other metrics or be replaced by people who do.

Such exponential growth does not occur in the natural world, except maybe for cancer—and that growth ceases once the host has been consumed.

But there may never be enough to satisfy shareholders who expect to win back one hundred times their initial twenty billion dollar bet.

To have autonomy without interdependency leads to isolation or narcissism. To have interdependency with no autonomy stunts our psychological growth. Healthy people live in social groups that have learned to balance or, better, marry these two imperatives.

The company's stellar growth revived more than a few economic sectors, as well as a few neighborhoods.

A few employees are fine while a company is getting going, but eventually all of those skills need to be automated in order for the company to "scale" infinitely. This is why Facebook wants AIs or—at worst—its users to monitor and tag offensive posts instead of paid human employees.

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The single most important thing [you can do] is to shift [your] internal stance from "I understand" to "Help me understand." Everything else follows from that. . . . Remind yourself that if you think you already understand how someone feels or what they are trying to say, it is a delusion. Remember a time when you were sure you were right and then discovered one little fact that changed everything. There is always more to learn.

People almost never change without first feeling understood.

Receiving feedback sits at the intersection of these two needs—our drive to learn and our longing for acceptance.

Before you tell me how to do it better, before you lay out your big plans for changing, fixing, and improving me, before you teach me how to pick myself up and dust myself off so that I can be shiny and successful—know this: I've heard it before. I've been graded, rated, and ranked. Coached, screened, and scored. I've been picked first, picked last, and not picked at all. And that was just kindergarten.

change forces us to learn differently.

Virtually from its declaration of independence from Britain in 1776, the United States was ambitious to acquire more territory.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

Use plants to bring life.

The brain is not a shoebox that 'gets full,' but rather a muscle that expands its capacity with increased use. The more you know, the more you can know.

You read widely to be shaped, not so that you might be prepared to regurgitate.