Quotes About Growth

And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place. Ideas too, I muttered. Ideas.

I love plants. For the longest time I thought that they died without pain. But of course after I had argued with Mary she showed me clippings on how plants went into shock when pulled up by their roots, and even uttered something indescribable, like panic, a drawn-out vowel only registered on special instruments. Still, I love their habit of constant return. I don't like cut flowers. Only the ones that grow in the ground.

Blue Juneberry, tough diamond willow.

She compares the deepest wells of depression to gestation, to a time enclosed, a secluded lightlessness in which, unknown and unforced, we grow.

Because she confided in him and gave him adult responsibilities, he matured rapidly and acquired unusual confidence;

What Rockefeller had accomplished in oil a generation earlier was now being imitated in steel, copper, rubber, tobacco, leather, and other products

the leading men would receive no salary but would profit solely from the appreciation of their shares and rising dividends—which Rockefeller thought a more potent stimulus to work.

With sky-high profits and ridiculously low start-up costs, the field had soon grown overcrowded.

He didn't enjoy responsibility and never learned to cope with it.

I shudder to think of what I should have been if I had remained in Richford all my life," he later confided.

Driven by such changes in the economy

Pierpont began to emerge from his father's shadow and take charge of major deals.

Junior was making progress after his breakdown but was still weak;

It seems to me that as the cities grow larger the country in general becomes weaker.

For Lloyd, the essence of Standard Oil power resided in its secret alliances with the railroads, which had fostered the growth of many trusts.

To mark their new financial status

Pierpont feared a replication of the railroad chaos, with overbuilding and price wars.

You must distribute it faster than it grows! If you do not, it will crush you and your children and your children's children.

Rebates had inevitably accompanied railroad expansion.

From Vanderbilt, Morgan had learned the trick of basing value not on current assets but on projected earnings.

Rockefeller knew that he now needed a larger and more efficient method for disposing of his fortune.

A parte habitada da cidade estendia-se da Battery até o Common.

There is no limit to the development of medical work.

Standard Oil again benefited from hard times to extend its powerful reach.