Quotes About Growth

Most blue oceans are created from within, not beyond, red oceans of existing industries

industry history shows, new market spaces are being created every day and are fluid with imagination.

Blue ocean strategy challenges companies to break out of the red ocean of bloody competition by creating uncontested market space that makes the competition irrelevant. Instead of dividing up existing—and often shrinking—demand and benchmarking competitors, blue ocean strategy is about growing demand and breaking away from the competition.

Blue ocean strategy challenges companies to break out of the red ocean of bloody competition by creating uncontested market space that makes the competition irrelevant.

In a study of business launches in 108 companies, we found that 86% of those new ventures were line extensions—incremental improvements to existing industry offerings—and a mere 14% were aimed at creating new markets or industries.

A market becomes stagnant and develops a growth problem as the number of soon-to-be noncustomers increases

No pastor, no spiritual leader, is ever able to take his people any further than he himself has gone with God.

Forget should's and experience is.

I have found that when players break their habitual patterns, they can greatly extend the limits of their own style and explore subdued aspects of their personality.

Only then does he have the chance to go beyond the limitations inherent in the various ego trips of Self 1 and to reach a new awareness of his true potential. Competition then becomes an interesting device in which each player, by making his maximum effort to win, gives the other the opportunity he desires to reach new levels of self-awareness.

Like a good gardener who knows when the soil needs alkali and when acid, the competent tennis pro should be able to help the development of your game.

If a mother identifies with every fall of her child and takes personal pride in its every success, her self-image will be as unstable as her child's balance. She finds stability when she realizes that she is not her child, and watches it with love and interest—but as a separate being.

Competition then becomes an interesting device in which each player, by making his maximum effort to win, gives the other the opportunity he desires to reach new levels of self-awareness.

fundamentally, experience precedes technical knowledge. We

experience precedes technical knowledge.

Freedom from stress happens in proportion to our responsiveness to our true selves, allowing every moment possible to be an opportunity for Self 2 to be what it is and enjoy the process. As far as I can see, this is a lifelong learning process.

if we let ourselves lose touch with our ability to feel our actions, by relying too heavily on instructions, we can seriously compromise our access to our natural learning processes and our potential to perform.

Once you learn how to learn, you have only to discover what is worth learning. Summarized

Stability grows as I learn to accept what I cannot control and take control of what I can.

I learned for the first but by no means the last time about the power of acceptance of life and death.

It's not about the win or the loss; if we're here to experience, then we are free.

Somehow the anger had taken me beyond my own preconceived limitations; it took me beyond caution.

key to better tennis—or better anything—lies in improving the relationship between the conscious teller, Self 1, and the natural capabilities of Self 2.

We will become better learners and more independent thinkers.