Quotes About Growth

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.

I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off.

My task is how I can learn to make money from that by giving first. I'm always constantly looking at how I can do more and more for less and less.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

As long as capital-both human and money-can move toward opportunity, trade will not balance.

Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given.

Startups should be, if you graph their financial performance, it should be what's called a J curve. You start out at zero, you're not making any money, you're not losing any money.

If you have never missed when investing, you haven't been in there trying.

It's not going to be about money. It's going to be about who am I, what have I done and where am I going.

I got screwed over in some bad business deals, but as long as I focused on those past problems, I couldn't move forward. I had to let all of that go and forgive everyone and everything first.

London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.

Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you're trying to do more than just make money.

Money definitely changes your lifestyle. But the things you go through makes who you are. Your experiences, they travel with you.

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

It's a fact: stock investors sometimes lose money on their way to wealth. Get over it.

Business money is limitless.

Let's not only provide a jumpstart to the economy and immediately or save 3 million jobs, but let's also put a down payment on some of the structural problems that we have in our economy.

There will be losing years; but if the art of making money is not to lose it, then there should not be substantial losses.

In the stock market, when you are right, you make a little money; when you are wrong, you learn a lot of lessons, so you always win!

Italy was a surprise in my life. I went there just to make money and then go back to Israel and study psychology. The arts wasn't something I grew up with or thought I could be part of.

The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it.

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living.