No great thing is created suddenly.
Fitness for self-government is not a God-given, natural right, but comes to a race only through the slow growth of centuries.
At the time “race” was used in its modern meaning and to denote nationality or even ethnicity.
Budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders, but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions. And any new recession would break all deficit records. In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now.
You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.
Slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.
Nothing great comes into being all at once.
You can't have 23 million people struggling to get a job. You can't have an economy that over the last three years keeps slowing down its growth rate. You can't have kids coming out of college, half of them can't find a job today, or a job that's commensurate with their college degree. We have to get our economy going.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.
In Indian companies, people aren't too worried about the pace of growth as long as you're setting up a business which will survive for years.
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!
My career has been an inch at a time.
I started growing late, so I was a late developer.
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
4chan's culture is unique and spreads and draws people in like no other. It's also important to realize that 4chan wasn't some overnight success, and there was never 'hockey stick' - like growth.
Certainly, 9 percent unemployment and very slow growth is not a good situation.
We now have the worst of both worlds – not just inflation on the one side or stagnation on the other side, but both of them together. We have sort of “stagflation” situation.
Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.
The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.
I'm okay with the idea that slow and steady wins the race.
I think being a kid is a wonderful thing, and I don't want to speed up that process any more.
I'd like to have longer hair, but mine just doesn't grow.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Call that profit. Prophesy such returns. Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years.
Democratic self-government is a plant of remarkably slow growth