Quotes About Growth

Experience alone opens a door, but intellectual framing and reflection are required if meaning is to be made of the experience.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. Michael J. Fox

we can't re-write the beginning, but we can write what happens now for whats written for the future

How did general prosperity encompass the entire world? Here the answer is that prosperity rises, first slowly and then increasinly fast, in all places where people can engage in peaceful and voluntary exchanges. Trade and the innovations that it makes possible provide the only known escape route from poverty.

Caminar no consuela. Caminar hace pensar. Cada paso argumenta.

Tout cela fera mal, mais plus tard seulement.

Solo l'amare, solo il conoscere conta, non l'aver amato, non l'aver conosciuto. Dà angoscia il vivere di un consumato amore. L'anima non cresce più.

I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see.

You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.

I went back and read all the Berkshire Hathaway annual reports. My life changed course as a result.

the likelihood that those estimated future cash flows will actually materialize (risk), how large those cash flows will likely be (growth), how much investment will be needed to keep the business ticking along (return on capital), and how long the business can generate excess profits (economic moat).

letting go is about courage. Courage is a really cool word, because it has two parts. There's the letting go part?letting go of the fear, the limiting beliefs. Courage to make the decision to break free from the things that are holding you back. But courage is not just about letting go. It's also about climbing higher, and reaching for something new.

noticed that it was a clear and beautiful spring day, a better day than yesterday. The spores of kindness, as well as faith, survived in this acid soil. Randy

You don't form teams; you build them.

High performance teams escape the gravitational force of group-think. They develop high levels of trust among team members as well as in their communication processes. Defensive mechanisms are left behind in the pursuit of the most creative and productive courses of action.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got.

I hereby grant you permission to write crap. The more the better. Remember, crap makes the best fertilizer.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.

Don't be impatient with yourself. Just be in awe.

Our role is to encourage, not discourage, reading.

The more we open ourselves to love, the larger our capacity for love becomes.

The self you leave behind is only a skin you have outgrown. Don't grieve for it. Look to the wet, raw, unfinished self, the one you are becoming. The world, too, sheds its skin: politicians, cataclysms, ordinary days.