Quotes About Growth

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

Those who stop being better stop being good.

Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

I've been lucky that I've been around good people, who kept me grounded and taught me.

It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood.

I try to hire people who will challenge and have the humility to be challenged - people who have basically good values.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again.

I've been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it's happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me.

I think continuity is a good thing. But change is sometimes good, too.

I was not a very good football player when I started out.

An unread book does nobody any good

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.

I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.