Quotes About Growth

In 1968 there were about $200 billion dollars in the United States. Prices were not very high. In 2003 there were $1.3 trillion and prices are up.

When do you realize the selves you left behind have gone on without you, living the many lives you now begin to resemble?

The lost leaves measure our years; they are gone as the days are gone.

It is in this marvellous transformation of clods and cold matter into living things that the joy and the hope of summer reside. Every blade of grass, each leaf, each separate floret and petal, is an inscription speaking of hope. So that my hope becomes as broad as the horizon afar, reiterated by every leaf, sung on every bough, reflected in the gleam of every flower.

Oak follows oak, and elm ranks with elm, however many times reduplicated, their beauty only increases. So, too, the summer days; the sun rises on the same grasses and green hedges, there is the same blue sky, but did we ever have enough of them? No, not in a hundred years!

Let not the eyes grow dim, look not back but forward; the soul must uphold itself like the sun. Let us labour to make the heart grow larger as we become older, as the spreading oak gives more shelter. That we could but take to the soul some of the greatness and the beauty of the summer!

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn't hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

Pull on the new flesh like borrowed gloves and burn your fingers once again.

See? Even dead she makes me a better whatever-the-hell it is I am. A less stupid person. A more considerate monster.

It's not necessary to fill every moment with your own voice. Silence terrifies you. You see your own existence as so tenuous that you're afraid you'll pop like a bubble if, at every opportunity, you don't remind the world that you're alive. But wisdom begins in silence. In learning to listen. To words and to the world. Trust me. You won't disappear. And, in time, you might find that you've grown into something unexpected." "What?

No, humans are good at growing bones, toenails, and cancer. That's about it.

I want to say that I'm not doing this because you tried to kill me. I want to be bigger and better than that. But I'm not. I'm doing this because you tried to kill me.

SOCIETY IS A CARNIVOROUS FLOWER

ONCE UPON A time I was a regular jackass living a regular jackass life.

I've been me for so long, what am I going to be if that's gone?

Hi, Keitu. Look how you've grown," I say, which is stupid because it's the last thing kids want to hear.

All great men begin as fools. It's one of life's little jokes.

I wonder if this is one of those things they call a "teachable moment." What it's supposed to teach me, I have no idea.

Nothing is ever the same the second time. It might be worse. It might be better. But it's never the same. And it's never as simple or innocent as it once might have seemed.

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

As the New Yorker columnist and bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell has shown, word of mouth can flare up and quickly die or it can reach the 'tipping point' where no force on earth can arrest the product's relentless forward march. The art of the entrepreneur is to get word of mouth to the tipping point.

A melhor maneira de examinar a lucratividade de sua empresa é dividindo-a em segmentos competitivos.

star business has two attributes: ? it is the leader in its market niche; and ? the market niche is growing fast, at least 10 per cent a year.

To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao-Tzu