Quotes About Growth

Rockefeller embarked on a buying binge such as the industry had never seen.

With $24 million now invested outside the oil and gas business, he held sizable stakes in 16 railroad companies, 9 real-estate firms, 6 steel companies, 6 steamship companies, 9 banks and financial houses, and even 2 orange groves.

Judge people less on their mistakes than on how they handle their mistakes

That's why babies cry so much. All of a sudden having a body is a lot to deal with.

Dark night of the soul," said Jesus, "Happens to everybody sooner or later.

The world is ripe, and we'll pluck it like an apple from a tree.

You are not quite ready yet, though. For the next six months, practice until your arms ache and your lips bleed. The suffering will be good for you. A slight smile crossed the conductor's face. If you haven't already found a woman who will break your heart, find one. What we played tonight, especially the Mozart, requires suffering.

Growing into leadership begins with self-leadership—which starts with discovering and nurturing the inner drive that will spur you to seemingly impossible achievements. That drive may be moving toward your passion, if you're lucky enough to know

Charles Dickens, visiting the United States five years earlier, had described Washington as "the City of Magnificent Intentions,"12 with "spacious avenues, that begin in nothing, and lead nowhere; streets, mile-long, that only want houses, roads, and inhabitants; public buildings that need but a public to be complete.

When someone masters something, it becomes a part of that person. It becomes part of the individual's thought and creative process. It adds the quality of its essence to all subsequent thought and creativityof the individual.

Reading a book is like life: you live it one page at a time.

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

governments don't produce economic growth people do.

What of all the entrepreneurs that fail? Well, many do, particularly the successful ones; often several times. And if you ask them the secret of their success, they'll tell you it's all that they learned in their struggles along the way; yes, it's what they learned from failing.

As I have often said, governments don't produce economic growth, people do. What government can do is encourage Americans to tap their well of ingenuity and unleash their entrepreneurial spirit, then get out of the way.

As I have often said, governments don't produce economic growth, people do.

The islanders, they write: carried out for us the experiment of permitting unrestricted population growth, profligate use of resources, destruction of the environment and boundless confidence in their religion to take care of the future. The result was an ecological disaster leading to a population crash…. Do we have to repeat the experiment on [a] grand scale?… Is the human personality always the same as that of the person who felled the last tree?

The best measure of success is how you deal with failure

A veces tengo la sensación de que uno se mueve en la vida dando siempre vueltas por los mismos lugares

Crecemos con el poderoso mensaje de nuestros progenitores calentándonos la cabeza y a menudo terminamos creyendo que sus deseos son nuestros deseos y que somos resposables de sus carencias

Todos estes livros, reparo, estão a mudar-me por dentro. Eu não podia imaginar que isto de ler era como viver.