Growth Quotes

Everything that, by the grace of the universe, I was able to become is the direct result of everything I went through.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output. ... A steady rate of monetary growth at a moderate level can provide a framework under which a country can have little inflation and much growth. It will not produce perfect stability; it will not produce heaven on earth; but it can make an important contribution to a stable economic society.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

The advancement and perfection of mathematics are intimately connected with the prosperity of the State.

Every major industry was once a growth industry. But some that are now riding a wave of growth enthusiasm are very much in the shadow of decline. Others that are thought of as seasoned growth industries have actually stopped growing. In every case, the reason growth is threatened, slowed, or stopped is not because the market is saturated. It is because there has been a failure of management.

Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.

The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in "Metcalfe's law”–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

No pressure, no diamonds.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Those [German immigrants] who come hither are generally the most ignorant Stupid Sort of their own nation …. They will soon so out-number us … that we will not be able to preserve our language, and even our government will become precarious.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

Son, seek out a kingdom equal to and worthy of thyself, for Macedonia is too little for you.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing grows there.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.