Growth Quotes - Page 26

• I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all probability going to suffer a reaction. With world growth, and population as it is, this reaction must increase.

  Tony Blair

  Future, Thinking, People

  Blair's climate change speech, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2004.

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• I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

  Paul Volcker

  Business, Giving, Innovation

  "‘Wake up, gentlemen’, world’s top bankers warned by former Fed chairman Volcker" by Patrick Hosking and Suzy Jagger, www.thetimes.co.uk. December 9, 2009.

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• Year after year, we have had to explain from mid-year onwards why the global growth rate has been lower than predicted as little as two quarters back. This pattern of disappointment and downward revision sets up the first, and the basic, challenge on the list of issues policymakers face in moving ahead: restoring growth, if that is possible.

  Stanley Fischer

  Disappointment, Moving, Years

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• Survival is a growth strategy.

  Ian Hogarth

  Survival, Strategy

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• The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.

  Maurice Strong

  Population, Needs, Danger

  "Maurice Strong on climate 'conspiracy', Bilberberg and population control". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2010.

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• It's been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people.

  Joe Rogan

  People, Understanding, Important

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• We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader.

  Rick Larsen

  Jobs, Class, America

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• No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

  Marc Andreessen

  Building, Easy, Should

  "Why Software Is Eating The World" by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

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• 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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• One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human beings. So if we want to have a church of spiritually mature people, let's just keep cramming more and more information into them... Information alone is not adequate for the transformation of the human personality.

  John Ortberg

  Spiritual, People, Personality

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• Traffic is only one of the side effects of growth

  Roy Barnes

  Sides, Traffic, Side Effects

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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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• 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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• 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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• Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.

  David Korten

  Jobs, Lying, Hype

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• If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.

  Henry W. Kendall

  Two, Population, Way

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• Higher saving leads to faster growth . . .

  Greg Mankiw

  Saving, Faster, Higher

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• That last rep where you're trying as hard as you can and you barely make it!
  That is what turns on the growth mechanism in your body.
  That last almost impossible rep where you're bearing your teeth, you're shaking all over, you need assistance!
  That rep is very special, that rep is very different. There's something special going on inside your body when that happens.

  Mike Mentzer

  Over You, Special, Trying

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• Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen:
  reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in.
  This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always,
  for every gardener knows that after the digging, after
  the planting,
  after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes.

  Marge Piercy

  Long, Digging, May

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.128, Knopf

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• Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same.

  Peter Morgan

  Thinking, Oil, Expectations

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• Gaia's main problems are not industrialization, ozone depletion, overpopulation, or resource depletion. Gaia's main problem is the lack of mutual understanding and mutual agreement in the noosphere about how to proceed with those problems. We cannot rein in industry if we cannot reach mutual understanding and mutual agreement based on a worldcentric moral perspective concerning the global commons. And we reach the worldcentric moral perspective through a difficult and laborious process of interior growth and transcendence.

  Ken Wilber

  Ozone, Agreement, Perspective

  "A Brief History of Everything". Book by Ken Wilber, 1996.

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