Quotes About Growth

They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.

The greatest advancements in living standards over the past century have been coincident with affordable energy.

It's a good thing to remember that hiring will get easier as you scale - but you should also never drop your standards.

Africa's vibrancy and entrepreneurial spirit is un-matched. There's huge potential here to grow business, create jobs, and to improve living standards.

Growth is not an objective in itself; we should be concerned with standards of living.

If you can keep getting better, we can set ourselves better standards every game.

There is no standing still because time is moving forward.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.

There is no such thing as standing still.

When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.

I could do a standing back flip at 13.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

To have an opportunity to get in front of a camera every single day is just priceless because it gets you closer and closer to being less self-consciousness in front of it and really being human and really making choices and standing by them.

Rather than standing back and being left behind, we must make the most of the opportunities that a growing China presents to us here in Britain.

Anyone who assumes that this country is standing still is not a good American, or rather, he is an apathetic and dead one and makes no contribution to the society.

Everything in life is about standing up and making the most of your opportunities.

I actually participated in a Little Miss Orange Blossom Contest when was I was seven or eight years old. I remember standing up on the stage and thinking, 'Oh boy, I should not be here.' Obviously, I didn't win.

Basketball is booming, and it's not just an Under Armour standpoint: it's about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

When I was in high school, my mom hated football. But then, the more I played, the more it grew on her. This game has done a lot for my family - not just from a financial standpoint, but it also helped bring my family together.

We're certainly interested in maximizing our return and doing it - we're interested in maximizing our return, but we're also interested in doing it over a long period of time and in doing it in a way that never endangers the firm from a survivability standpoint.

I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.

From an acting standpoint, when I was a kid, I thought I knew everything there was to know. As the years go by, this craft becomes more intensive as I get older. You realize how much more there is to know and to learn, and how much better you can get, if you really work at it.

I don't really think about having a retrospective on my high-school years. It's not something that, from a positive or a negative standpoint, is a driving force in my life.