Quotes About Progress

David Sarnoff had predicted, the radio became the ornate mahogany god of the American living room: there were three million sets in 1924, thirty million in 1936, and fifty million by 1940, by which time a simple radio could be had for less than ten dollars.

Investing is a journey of lifelong learning

The scribe was no mere linguistic technician, but rather the sole possessor of the skill set that made civilization hum, a sort of investment banker, engineer, and diplomat all rolled up into one. Or, in the words of the linguist Ignaz Gelb, "Writing exists only in a civilization, and a civilization cannot exist without writing."47

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

Never mind what others do do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.

Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.

Do something new and you are new. How boring it is not to fire machine guns.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

body heals itself, but there is a scar.

everything he was looking at was about to change. Change was the destiny of all things, living or not. The best anyone could hope for was to have strong hand in shaping what came next.

The culture of the Old West, if it ever really did exist, had been tamed and replaced by the uniformity of the Walmart–strip mall–McDonald's homogenizing of America. It was happening in Minnesota, too. Hell, it was happening everywhere in the world.

It began to feel to me as if what had been broken was coming together again, but I knew it would never be exactly the same.

Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail to see that scientific thought is not an accompaniment or condition of human progress, but human progress itself.

Civilization could not be said to have truly ended until there were no restaurants left.