Quotes About Growth

Over the long term, there will be many more billion-dollar technology companies than there are today.

But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.

I try to send out a good message - I sometimes get asked for advice for leaving home and trying to 'make it' overseas. I would always say think long term, and think bigger picture: make the sacrifice.

I think people are looking at Canada and realizing we're a place that is building for the long term and where the world's going to be.

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

But in the long term, I think it is improper to limit your future.

I wouldn't want to criticise someone like Charlotte Church because she has done fantastically well, but personally I've always cared about the long term.

Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.

When it comes to portfolios, my personal advice is for anyone who can, put money into forestry or farmland. Long term, you would probably never come near their returns in the stock market. In the world that I see, land is golden.

In long term investments, you don't need day to day management.

I started out in pre-law. I was going to go to law school. And I saw a production of 'Tally's Folly' that spring term. I took a theater class that term and auditioned for 'Harvey' at the end of the summer, and I was in a play every semester after that.

I came up with the idea that I wanted to develop products because I saw services businesses being a dead end long term.

We've tried to build Sequoia Capital with an eye for the long term that we really look for in the companies we like to partner with.

In the long term, Greece is an important market for us.

A more productive economy in the long term will bring us higher tax revenues, but that requires long-term investment in infrastructure and the skills necessary to grow a balanced economy.

I'm not an academic type in term of personality. I had my share of madness as a teenager.

What 'Short Term 12' did was it gave me the confidence to explore my intuition more. The healing process that came for me for making that movie and then sharing it with people - I was able to see, first hand, that movies can have a healing power and they can teach us things.

Too many investors overvalue companies in the near term while undervaluing them in the long term.

Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.

The New Age, I think, is a term that is well laid to rest.

You have to build businesses for longer term.

I'm really excited to see what the future hold for me in terms of work. It's going to be hard, but it's going to be good hard work, and I'm really excited for the challenge that awaits me.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.