Quotes About Growth

Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.

During our time, we used to go to school at the age of six.

We have to try harder to do our best every day, challenge ourselves to better our world.

It's important to us to see the development and growth. At the end of the day, it's our baby. Genetically it's ours. It's our embryo. We feel very connected.

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

Our approach makes it so if you hear a said song of ours in 2003 and then you hear it again in 2009 it's probably evolved and changed a good bit, and hopefully for the better.

China's government has far more control over the country's economy than our government has over ours, and it is moving from export dependence to a model of growth driven by domestic demand. Any restriction on exports to the U.S. would simply accelerate a process already underway.

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.

At Microsoft, we're aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it's seen as empowering.

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

Forgiveness for one's self is the only way we can keep going through life and give ourselves the best chance at being the best people we can be.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

I'm always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I'll build a new one.

Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.

Winning is no longer just the outcome. It's part of the process.

When I talk to young people, I always tell them the biggest lesson I learned was that you shouldn't care about the outcome. If it fails, it fails. Every failure will groom you for your next big reward.