Quotes About Progress

The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.

Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.

Did there come a point, beyond which we no longer look forward to something coming,but only to getting away from what had passed?

He's not so thick, said Reinhart. It's mainly a question of tempo.

Tunisia is always ready to turn the page.

I have carried this abscess too far, Tunisia is going through a difficult period. Freedom is dangerous.

Yes, I am Western, and I will remain so.

I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.

We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?

The Chinese write the word "crisis" with the same symbol as the word "opportunity.

the demands of a highly organized industrial society made people behave in more disciplined, calculating and cooperative ways.

The Roman politician and philosopher Cicero once said: 'Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Today, South Korea is one of the world's industrial powerhouses, whike North Korea languishes in poverty. Much of this is thanks to the fact that South Korea aggressively traded with the outside world and actively absorbed foreign technologies while North Korea pursued its doctrine of self-sufficiency.

The importance of international trade for economic development cannot be overemphasized. But free trade is not the best path to economic development. Trade helps economic development only when the country employs a mixture of protection and open trade, constantly adjusting it according to its changing needs and capabilities. Trade is simply too important for economic development to be left to free trade economists.

The view that the world has now entered a new era of the 'knowledge economy', in which making things does not confer much value, is based upon a fundamental misreading of history. We have always lived in a knowledge economy.

Today, Korea is one of the most 'inventive' nations in the world-it ranks among the top five nations in terms of the number of patents granted annually by the US Patent Office.

Unless South Africa is

the chance of an average developing-country person being an entrepreneur is more than twice that for a developed-country person (30 per cent vs. 12.8 per cent).

E. REINERT How Rich Countries Became Rich, and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor

A. RONCAGLIA The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought

Breakthrough solutions start with reframed questions, and we are in need of breakthrough solutions in many, many realms.

Questions have a curious power to unlock new insights and positive behavior change in every part of our lives. They can get people unstuck and open new directions for progress no matter what they are struggling with. Reframed questions, in whatever setting, turn out to have some fundamental things in common.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.