Quotes About Progress

It was possible, probable even, that the world could be rebuilt.

Relationships are like wall paper patterns, you think your moving forward but your always caught in your own obsessions.

Earth had done just that over the last few hundred years.

Everything is what it is because it got that way.

It's never too late to reinvent yourself.

In life and leadership, you will make mistakes—and those around you will make mistakes as well. None of us are perfect.

He who began a good work in you will complete it. Don't give up. Press on. No matter how far you feel you've come—or how far you feel you have to go—don't stop now. Even if you miss the mark terribly, today is a new day. Live for "that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed" you.

The older speak life and lessons to the younger, and the younger bring new energy and enthusiasm, pioneering a new way. Talk

who began a good work in you will complete it. Don't give up. Press on. No matter how far you feel you've come—or how far you feel you have to go—don't stop now. Even

Economic growth and technological change are accompanied by what the great economist Joseph Schumpeter called creative destruction. They replace the old with the new. New sectors attract resources away from old ones. New firms take business away from established ones. New technologies make existing skills and machines obsolete.

A remarkable thing about new technologies in the Roman period is that their creation and spread seem to have been driven by the state. This is good news, until the government decides that it is not interested in technological development—and all-too-common occurrence due to the fear of creative destruction.

Those controlling political power will eventually find it more beneficial to use their power to limit competition, to increase their share of the pie, or even to steal and loot from others rather than support economic progress.

Rich nations are rich largely because they managed to develop inclusive institutions at some point during the past three hundred years. These institutions have persisted through a process of virtuous circles. Even if inclusive only in a limited sense to begin with, and sometimes fragile, they generated dynamics that would create a process of positive feedback, gradually increasing their inclusiveness.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

Twelfth is a brittle fundamentalism that has caused many who came from such a background to eventually grow out of and renounce it.

First, the changes they were experiencing made more and more evident a rigid system of interpreting the Bible, a system that they were quickly outgrowing. So quickly, indeed, that once the dam broke, once they could no longer contain their reading of the Bible within the framework of fundamentalism, there was a flood—and so they moved on. Second

After the revolution, comes other people.

Democracy can no longer ignore the future.

The big difference between a friend and an inventor is that an inventor works.

Today is the same as yesterday and tomorrow, but different.

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers.

This isn't just a book about organizational change—it's also about

The harder I push, the further I fall.