Quotes About Growth

best businesses to own are those in which end markets are growing rather than shrinking. Absent

Opportunities for growth maximize the benefits derived from high returns on capital. Such opportunities can arise from market growth, either cyclical or structural, or through a firm grabbing share from rivals in existing markets or expanding geographically. The very best companies enjoy a diversified set of growth drivers through ingenuity in the design of products, pricing, and product mix.

The value any business creates, listed or not, is determined by the rate at which it deploys incremental capital. And

much diversification is really diworsification.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

You show up at these meetings to stay sober and you walk out with a fucking education.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow

Whatever God there is is slowly eliminating the guts and alimentary system from the human being, to evolve a higher, more spiritual being.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

Here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast. —The Red Queen in Alice Through the Looking Glass

I had learned that there were times when fighting was impossible, when the best thing to do was to wait and to learn.

just want to read more books and be a knowledgeable female.

The problem with success, even a little success, is that it changes you. You are no longer walking along the same precipice that drove you to do great work in the first place. Now you have something to defend: a reputation, money in the bank, a brand, real customer expectations. Success can take the edge away.

Lack of comfort means we are on the threshold of new insights.

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

With new hope. We build new lives. Why complain when it rains? This is what it means to be free.

Even monkeys fall out of trees.

We started this band as kids, and as time has gone on, we've grown and are learning to accommodate each others' differences.

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.