Quotes About Growth

Most people in bad times cut corners in the most treacherous way imaginable—by downsizing human or intellectual capital, the real asset of most businesses today. That is a mistake. You can find no greater upside-leveraging tools than the energy, passion, intelligence, connections, and entrepreneurial spirit of the human beings you surround yourself with.

better idea would be to keep the same number of staff you have now and invest in high upside-leverage "performance enhancement" training, which would result in those same employees becoming as much as 50 to 100 percent more effective.

as long as their salespeople maintain sales from existing clients at past levels or above, give them 100 percent of the profit on the first sale for every new client they bring in. They'll be ten times more motivated to sell new clients.

Knowledge is the currency of the twenty-first century.

More than half your marketing time should be devoted to your existing customers.

Maturation is fundamentally the process of learning to discipline one's self and to carry personal responsibility.

Growing up meant admitting you couldn't have everything.

Lassan kell járnod. Újra kell tanulnod mindent.

You will have to go slowly. You will have to learn everything all over again.

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They said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Sounds like the classic definition of insanity, doesn't it? Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

When we were growing up, Cooper Island was our whole world." "And then we went out into a much bigger world, so the island and everything on it now seem smaller in comparison.

Life never stood still, no matter how hard you tried to hold onto it.

Le jardin dormait encore. Je l'ai surpris, nourrice. Je l'ai vu sans qu'il s'en doute. C'est beau un jardin qui ne pense pas encore aux hommes.

Die meisten Menschen leben in den Ruinen ihrer Gewohnheiten.

Imitate, and what is personal will eventually come despite yourself.

Success had put me on the wrong track and I did not know that there is a kind of success worse than failure, and a kind of failure worth all the success in the world. Neither did I know that the distant friendship of Rainer Maria Rilke would one day console me for having seen his lamp burn without knowing that it was signalling me to go and singe my wings against its flame.

plant it It will sprout But forget about the rustic festivities For the explosive word falls harmlessly eternal through the compact generations

Listen carefully to first criticisms of your work. Note just what it is about your work that the critics don't like—then cultivate it. That's the part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

J'ai la peau de l'âme trop sensible. Il faudrait apprendre à son âme à marcher pieds nus.

Il faudrait apprendre à son âme à marcher pieds nus.

I might swing from branch to branch, but always in the same tree.

The climate warmed. Wild grasses, flowers and trees took root in the land behind the huge rock. In time, their growing and dying made deep rich loam on which a magnificent forest grew. Into the forest came bear, deer, brightly colored birds, and the Pawtuxets, a tribe of the Wampanoag, The People of the Dawn.