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Quotes About Growth

Nobody here wants to be awful, he said. He hopped a little as he zipped up. It's just nobody here knows all the rules yet, and that makes a rocky time.
~ Daniel Woodrell
would go up the learning curve only once." These
~ Daniel Yergin
Between the end of the Great Recession, in June 2009, and 2019, net fixed investment in the oil and gas extraction sector represented more than two-thirds of total U.S. net industrial investment. In another measure, between 2009 and 2019, the increases in oil and gas have accounted for 40 percent of the cumulative growth in U.S. industrial production.
~ Daniel Yergin
Vision 2030 itself, launched in 2007, which laid out the overall strategy. The message was that the country needed to diversify its revenue base, upgrade skills, create jobs, and increase the participation of women in the economy. The results have come faster than might have been expected. Two decades ago, almost all of GDP was oil-based. Today, about 60 percent of GDP is non-oil-related. Non-oil exports have risen from just 13 percent of total exports in 2010 to 57 percent in 2018.
~ Daniel Yergin
When the SARS epidemic had begun in 2002, China accounted for only 4 percent of the world economy, and the impact on the global oil market was negligible. But now China accounted for 16 percent, and the impact was global; for China not only had become the world's second largest oil consumer, but it also had accounted for half the total growth in world oil demand.
~ Daniel Yergin
In 2000, 1.9 million cars were sold in China, 17.3 million in the United States. By 2019, the number was 25 million in China and 17 million in the United States.
~ Daniel Yergin
As in the 1960s, oil and energy were now available in abundance and, thus, they were not a constraint on economic growth. Supplies were safe again. Excess oil capacity around the world exceeded demand by 10 million barrels per day, equivalent to 20 percent of the free world's consumption.
~ Daniel Yergin
In 2009, China overtook the United States as the world's largest auto market, and the gap continues to grow. Beijing is determined that one out of every five new vehicles sold in China by 2025 should be a NEV—a "new energy vehicle.
~ Daniel Yergin
I'm trying to help him build his confidence. He can do a lot of things. He can field. He can hit. He can run. He has everything. All he needs in experience.
~ Alfredo Amezaga
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
~ David Brinkley
To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can't learn. If you have too much, you will think you don't have to learn.
~ Eric Hoffer
When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence.
~ Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.
~ Michelle Obama
As long as you keep going, you'll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success.
~ Tamara Taylor
After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it's always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.
~ Brittany Murphy
From dancing in the rain to crying silently in the rain we all grew up…
~ Malcolm Monserrate
Life is just learning to dance in the rain – enjoy every drop and enjoy every pain!
~ Mary Rose Magnaye
Let her tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble and run, her joys must be high as her sorrows are deep, let her grow like a weed in the sun.
~ Neil Gaiman
Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.
~ Alex Tabarrok
Education is a gift that none can take away.
~ American Proverb
The willingness to learn new skills is very high.
~ Angela Merkel
You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
~ Barack Obama
There is no education like adversity.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
~ Benjamin Disraeli