Growth Quotes - Page 18

• The purpose of the corporation must be redefined as creating shared value, not just profit per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy.

  Michael Porter

  Creating, Innovation, Purpose

  "The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value" by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2011.

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• With The Myth of Achievement Tests, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries, and Tim Kautz have offered a wealth of insightful analysis and brought together a number of topics often treated separately to inform a comprehensive discussion of the growth, character, and impact of the GED that is truly monumental. This is a first-rate book.

  Eric A. Hanushek

  Book, Character, Impact

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• We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more years of greenhouses gases, species extinctions and population growth.

  Denis Hayes

  Years, Effort, Population

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• You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Wise, Mind, Way

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• This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity.

  George Pataki

  Opportunity, Thinking, Choices

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• Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Tree, Atheism, Unhappy

  Mary Hunter Austin, Reuben J. Ellis (1996). “Beyond Borders: The Selected Essays of Mary Austin”, p.34, SIU Press

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• What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony of it all, never before have musicians tried so hard to communicate with their audience, and never before has that communication been so deceiving. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector.

  Jacques Attali

  Communication, Self, Musician

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, Joseph Darby, 1996.

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• Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Community, Individual

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• When you quickly get into motion, a problem becomes an opportunity for growth.

  Mike D

  Opportunity, Problem

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• Movies are not a growth business.

  Jeffrey Katzenberg

  "Jeff Shell, Les Moonves Zing Katzenberg: Movies 'Tremendous Growth Business'" by Paul Bond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 30, 2014.

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• The 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing.

  James Hansen

  Mean, Years, Climate

  "Global Temperature Update Through 2012" by James Hansen, M. Sato and R. Ruedy, January 15, 2013.

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• There are always risks when you chase after a dream because growth requires that you leave your comfort zone and enter unknown territory. But without confronting those risks and facing your fears, you'll never, as Nike says, "Just do it." Now the truth is, you may fail in some of your efforts, but you will never succeed if you are not willing to risk failure. And even if you do fail, you can learn from the experience and try again. To do that, you will need courage, and you will also need to have faith in your ability to achieve your goals.

  Stedman Graham

  Faith, Dream, Nike

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• The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He can find the quality of happiness in the strain and travail only of achievement and growth. And he is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment which his life-urges demand when his is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

  Robert Briffault

  Life, Ideas, Goal

  Robert Briffault (1969). “Reasons for anger”, Books for Libraries

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• The keener the want the lustier the growth.

  Wendell Phillips

  Want

  Wendell Phillips (1861). “Disunion: 2 discourses”, p.28

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  ‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

  Salman Rushdie

  Inspirational, Life, Ideas

  "Salman Rushdie Voices Support for Charlie Hebdo After Paris Shooting". www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 7, 2015.

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• The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

  Friedrich List

  Agriculture, Increase, Proportion

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• Sustainable growth is characterized by one simple rule: New customers come from the actions of past customers.

  Eric Ries

  Past, Simple, Action

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.207, Crown Business

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• In the old economy, it was all about having the answers. But in today’s dynamic, lean economy, it’s more about asking the right questions. A More Beautiful Question is about figuring out how to ask, and answer, the questions that can lead to new opportunities and growth.

  Eric Ries

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Today

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• It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.

  John Hoeven

  Jobs, Rising, Tides

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• We met financial expectations for the quarter in a difficult economic environment. We also signed a two-year programming agreement with Home & Garden Television to launch two new cable television series, and launched the Martha Stewart Kids magazine These initiatives provide future revenue and earnings growth for the brand and build long-term value for shareholders.

  Martha Stewart

  Kids, Home, Garden

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• The objects in our system are instead a help to the child himself, he chooses what he wants for his own use, and works with it according to his own needs, tendencies and special interests. In this way, the objects become a means of growth.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Mean, Special

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• The environmentalist's dream is an egalitarian society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally.

  Aaron Wildavsky

  Dream, Rejection, Population

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• Edward Conard provides a provocative interpretation of the causes of the global financial crisis and the policies needed to return to rapid growth. Whether you agree or not, this analysis is well worth reading.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Reading, Analysis, Return

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• Growth based on debt is unsustainable, artificial.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Debt, Artificial

  "EU near austerity limit, says Barroso" by Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2013.

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• Everyone wins when children - and especially girls – have access to education. An educated girl is likely to increase her personal earning potential and prepare herself for a productive and fulfilling life, as well as reduce poverty in the whole community. Investing in girls' education also helps delay early marriage and parenthood. Our booming economies in Africa need more female engineers, teachers and doctors to prosper and sustain growth.

  Angelique Kidjo

  Girl, Teacher, Children

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