“We need to enact fundamental tax reform. The weight and complexity of our 73,000-page tax code are crushing everyday Americans. We need to radically simplify the tax code so that we can re-start the real engine of growth in our economy. That means our tax code needs to go from 73,000 pages down to about three pages.” NeedsMeanRealThreeGrowthEconomyTaxesPagesWeightFundamentalsEverydayReformCodeComplexityCrushEnginesSimplifyTax Reform Author:Carly Fiorina
“From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed, ah, people. And so we're always on... on the look for ah, that kind of person.” PeopleLooksKindPersonsHas BeensGrowthSmartCommittedConstraintsMicrosoftProgrammersVery Smart Author:Bill Gates
“I think the conventional wisdom is vastly true. There will be a huge growth in mobile, and this is something we are witnessing every day.” ThinkingGrowthHugeConventionalMobileConventional Wisdom Author:Maurice Levy
“The more subtle thing is more speculative. The world is well past its long-term carrying capacity for human beings living a European, much less an American, lifestyle predicated on planned obsolescence. International economic growth is largely a matter of accelerated movement of materials from mines and forests to the dump. Instead of saving and buying decent furniture we can pass on to our children, we charge our credit cards for shaped heaps of sawdust and glue that fall apart in less than three or four years.” WorldYearsHumansWellsChildrenLongMatterPastFallThreeGrowthTermHuman BeingsFourEconomicMovementMinesMaterialsCapacityOur ChildrenInternationalCreditLifestyleForestsCardsSavingLong TermDecentBuyingSubtleFour YearsFalling ApartFurnitureEconomic GrowthCredit CardDumpGlueObsolescenceSawdustPlanned Obsolescence Author:Denis Hayes
“Heartbreak makes us stronger; it's an opportunity for spiritual growth. How can you understand someone else's pain if you have not yourself suffered?” IfsPainSpiritualOpportunityGrowthStrongerSpiritual Growth Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I think of movies as depicting moments of change. Change is growth, and that change also possesses the same dynamism that movies do.” ThinkingMomentsGrowthDynamism Author:Mamoru Hosoda
“It's so funny the world we live in now. The years where you are most fertile, those are also the fertile years for career and personal growth. And so you're not encouraged to get pregnant in your 20s. But the 30s are when the biology kind of has you by the ovaries, so to speak.” WorldYearsKindSpeakGrowthCareersPersonal GrowthBiologyWhere You ArePregnantFertileOvaries Author:Staceyann Chin
“The more that I travel, the more people that I meet, the more experiences that are really a testament to the kind of person that I am, and you hear about my experiences and my growth through my music. I think that that is really relatable.” PeopleThinkingKindPersonsGrowthTestamentRelatable Author:Zella Day
“I don't know how many resolutions from the IMF or G-20 we have already written saying that such [financial] reforms are necessary for new growth.” KnowsGrowthKnow HowWrittenFinancialReformResolutionImfNew Growth Author:Wolfgang Schauble
“In China, it was always said that a double-digit rate of growth would be dangerous. Now, the country has a growth rate of 6.9 percent and suddenly that is supposed to be a catastrophe for the global economy.” SaidCountryWould BeGrowthEconomyDangerousPercentRateChinaSupposed To BeCatastropheGlobal Economy Author:Wolfgang Schauble
“Forgiveness is essential to health, growth, and healing.” GrowthHealingEssentials Author:Lee L Jampolsky
“Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.” MeanCountryGrowthGrewGrew UpChinaErasIsolationIsolated Author:Zhang Xin
“Growth will be slower, no one denies that. But the question is: Where are the chances and opportunities now? I see some positive and some negative trends.” OpportunityGrowthChanceNegativeDenyTrends Author:Zhang Xin
“The responsibility of caring and providing for a child can both give you strength or be paralyzing at times. Depending on the attitude you choose. Ultimately I think it is very valuable to anyone's personal growth having to care for someone else than just yourself.” ThinkingGivingChildrenCareGrowthAttitudeResponsibilityPersonal GrowthValuableCaringYou ChooseProviding Author:Olof Arnalds
“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.” TimeEvilGrowthChangeHistoryAcceptanceInnovationAgingRejectionRemedyAdoptionInnovatorsStarting AnewTime For A ChangeGreat ProgressProgress And Change Author:Francis Bacon
“I'm working with wind, solar, and biofuels companies as well as with organizations like ACORE [American Council On Renewable Energy], Growth Energy, and AREDAY to raise public awareness and seek practical technological solutions to reduce our reliance on fossilized carbon. My book Don't Wait for the Next War will be out in October, where I will offer my prescription for America's growth, responsible development, and security.” WellsBookWarAmericaNextEnergyWaitingGrowthCompanyAwarenessSecurityWindDevelopmentOffersSolutionsOrganizationResponsibleRaisesPracticalsTechnologicalCarbonCouncilRelianceOctoberPrescriptionsRenewable EnergyBiofuels Author:Wesley K. Wark
“It's good to do things that are out of the norm. I'm a creature of habit and I like to stay in my own little comfort zone, but you have to reach out of that sometimes. And when you do that, you grow. And growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day. And that's one of the things that I say to myself as far as a ritual that I have every day: "What can I do today to make it better than it was yesterday?"” WantNeedsLittlesSometimesTodayGrowsGrowthMy OwnHabitComfortCreaturesStriveYesterdayGet BetterEach DayZoneRitualReach OutComfort ZoneNormCreatures Of Habit Author:LaToya Jackson
“How can I look at it and say, there it is - it's real. This is what is happening. It might even be a catalyst for more personal growth for me. It might be a blessing in disguise. It might not be. What's my best course of action? How can I be skillful?” LooksRealMightActionCoursesGrowthBlessingHappeningsPersonal GrowthDisguiseCatalystSkillfulBlessings In Disguise Author:Brad Willis
“I feel like people focus too much on what other people think of their lives and trying to appear like they have it all together rather than focusing on just being happy. You can't control the perception of others no matter how hard you try. Do things that promote personal growth and health. Genuine happiness is hard to miss.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTryingMatterHardTogetherGrowthToo MuchFocusMissingPerceptionPersonal GrowthGenuineJust BeingGenuine HappinessPerception Of Others Author:Melanie Iglesias
“For me, love is the feeling of being at home no matter where on earth you are. It's a comfort that silences anxieties. It's the feeling of finding a safe place in the middle of disaster. Love does not judge. Love promotes personal growth. Love is not materialistic. It's intangible yet somehow an undeniable feeling. You know it when you have it. I have lots of love in my life and I am blessed.” KnowsDoeMatterFeelingsHomeEarthGrowthLove IsSilenceMiddleJudgingComfortSafeAnxietyFindingsBlessedPersonal GrowthDisasterMaterialisticIntangibleSafe Places Author:Melanie Iglesias
“Our economy continues to struggle with slow economic growth, high unemployment and stagnant wages. "Obama care's" raising costs. That's making it harder for small businesses to hire. In short, it's a train wreck.” CareGrowthStruggleEconomyEconomicCostHarderTrainUnemploymentWagesSmall BusinessEconomic GrowthWrecksStagnantTrain WrecksObama Care Author:John Boehner
“Precision medicine is diving into the DNA with a knowledge that everybody's tumor has a unique genetic profile and you want to be able to identify that specific piece of DNA that has become mutated and that is driving cancer growth.” WantAbleGrowthPiecesUniqueMedicineCancerDrivingDnaPrecisionProfileDivingTumors Author:Laurie Glimcher
“We have a very old conservation movement, particularly in the United States, which has focused on campaigns to protect endangered species: the spotted owl, the old-growth forest. But usually it stops there. To me, biodiversity is the full spectrum. Species conservation is not only about wilderness conservation. ItÂ’s also about protecting the livelihood of people even while changing the dominant relationship that humans have had with other species. In India, itÂ’s an economic issue, not just an ecological one.” PeopleHumansStatesGrowthUnitedUnited StatesIssuesEconomicMovementProtectIndiaSpeciesFocusedCampaignsForestsWildernessDominantConservationSpectrumEcologicalLivelihoodOwlBiodiversityEndangered SpeciesEconomic Issues Author:Vandana Shiva
“The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think itÂ’s time we recognized that in free trade the poor farmer, the small farmer, is ending up having to pay royalties to the Monsantos of the world.” ThinkingWorldChildrenGrowthPoorPayTradeFarmersRoyaltyPoorestFree TradeMonsantoAgribusiness Author:Vandana Shiva
“Today you have a situation where now the prescription is: People who donÂ’t have enough money to buy food should end up paying for their drinking water. That is going to be the kind of situation in which you will get more child labor. You will get more exploitation of women. YouÂ’re going to get an absolutely exploitative economy as the very basis of living becomes a source of capital accumulation and corporate growth. In fact, the chief of Coca-Cola in India said: “Our biggest market in India comes from the fact that there is no drinking water left. People will have to buy Coca-Cola.” PeopleShouldKindChildrenSaidEndsEnoughFactsTodayLeftGrowthWaterSituationEconomySourceLaborIndiaBasesDrinkingChiefsCorporateExploitationAccumulationPrescriptionsDrinking WaterCoca ColaChild Labor Author:Vandana Shiva
“For that to happen, growth has to be very strong. To get back to normalcy, we will have to have extended growth of more than 3 percent. That's not in the cards.” HappensStrongGrowthPercentCardsGet BackVery StrongNormalcy Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“People have put a lot of faith in the government's ability to get growth going in China. People have this, what I think, illusion that there are six people in China who really have their hand on every button. And what we're learning is, it's a very big economy and they're not that good at it.” PeopleThinkingHandsBigsGovernmentGrowthAbilityEconomySixIllusionChinaButtons Author:David Wessel
“The problem is, if at all, in the different view of the economy, of economic growth. Growth is too low, even for us. That needs to change: More investments, a stronger role by the European Central Bank. Otherwise, there are no tensions between Italy and Germany. But on this point, compromises must be reached and we will reach them.” IfsNeedsDifferentProblemGrowthViewsRolesEconomyEconomicLowsStrongerInvestmentCompromiseTensionGermanyEconomic GrowthNeed A ChangeCentral BanksDifferent Views Author:Paolo Gentiloni
“A sense of acquiring more mistakes and regrets the older you get, but also deeper growth in learning from these things. The value of experience.” ValuesGrowthMistakeRegretDeeperRegret And Mistake Author:Brooke Waggoner
“Ohioans know who cut their taxes. Nobody else on the ballot did. Ohioans know who is responsible for job growth, and nobody else on the ballot was.” KnowsJobsGrowthCuttingTaxesResponsibleBallotsJob Growth Author:Tom Ridge
“Personal growth and professional development require mostly being treated like an adult, which is pretty much the opposite of what happens in most workplaces. People need to be able to make decisions. To do that effectively, they need information and training in how to use it.” PeopleNeedsUseHappensAbleGrowthDecisionInformationDevelopmentTrainingAdultsOppositesPersonal GrowthTreatedWorkplaceProfessional Development Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“I think most importantly the reason we've been on the upswing is Ring of Honor has been very smart about the speed of its growth. ROH is not a company that says ok we're going to throw all this money in and let's just go for it. ROH has the business approach of slow but steady.” ThinkingHas BeensReasonGrowthCompanyHonorApproachSmartSpeedRingsSteadyVery Smart Author:Adam Cole
“I just want people to see my growth as an artist, and singer.” PeopleWantArtistGrowthSingers Author:Leon Bridges
“Finance went from being a small business, effectively, to being a big business. In part, that's the growth of the world's wealth. That's called savings.” WorldBigsGrowthWealthFinanceSavingSmall BusinessSavingsBig Business Author:Jamie Dimon
“But in general, as countries get wealthier, there's going to be more savings, which means you're going to have intermediation. So part of it is just the huge growth in wealth, and part of it was globalization - these companies, these clients getting much bigger and much more global.” MeanCountryGrowthWealthCompanyHugeBiggerSavingClientsGlobalizationSavings Author:Jamie Dimon
“As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.” FirstsGrowthChangeBirthCreaturesInnovationIllLiving CreaturesStarting Anew Author:Francis Bacon
“I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was really interested in the subject of, you know, the birth and growth of Islam. And he basically transmitted that interest to me.” KnowsLittlesFatherGrowthInterestReligiousSubjectsGrewBirthGrew UpIslam Author:Salman Rushdie
“I can't possibly predict precisely what the unemployment rate will be at the end of one year. I can tell you that over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we'd put in place, we'd get the unemployment rate down to 6%, and perhaps a little lower.” YearsWellsLittlesI CanEndsStatesShowsJobsGrowthUnitedUnited StatesVirtueFourSeeingPolicyKeysDependsPeriodsCompetitionRateEmployeeFour YearsGlobesUnemploymentUnemployment RateJob Growth Author:Mitt Romney
“And wages - we'll see the end of this decline we're having. The median income in America is down 10% in just the last four years. That's got to stop. We've got to start seeing rising wages and job growth.” YearsEndsJobsLastsAmericaGrowthFourSeeingIncomeRisingFour YearsDeclineWagesMedianJob Growth Author:Mitt Romney
“The upshot is that to send its children to a school of even average quality, a family must outbid half of other similar families who are pursuing the same goal. And that's become dramatically more expensive because of the growth in median house size, which was in turn caused by higher spending at the top.” ChildrenSchoolTurnsHouseGoalGrowthHalfQualityHigherAverageSizeSpendingExpensiveMedian Author:Bob Frank
“In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth.” MeanLongRunningGrowthGreaterInvestmentProductivityIncomeLong Runs Author:Bob Frank
“One of the ways in which parenting is a learning experience and an opportunity for moral growth is that we learn as parents that we don't choose the kind of child that we have.” WayKindChildrenOpportunityParentGrowthMoralLearning ExperienceMoral Growth Author:Michael Sandel
“Save what you can toward the emergency and life happens fund. But don't worry yourself sick at the slow growth. The point is it's growing even it's just one dollar at at time.” HappensGrowthWorryGrowingSickDollarsJust OneFundEmergenciesLife HappensSlow Growth Author:Michelle Singletary
“To put it in context, the federal government was, at the beginning [of the Vancouver meeting], talking about a $15-per-tonne floor for carbon emissions. We're at $30 a tonne, so we're already double that. But our economy is growing at a faster rate - three per cent of GDP is our projected growth in British Columbia.” GovernmentThreeGrowthTalkingEconomyGrowingMeetingsRateBritishFasterCentsCarbonFederal GovernmentEmissionsColumbiaGdpVancouverCarbon EmissionsBritish Columbia Author:Christy Clark
“We know taxes slow down economic growth, so if you add a carbon tax you have to also minus other taxes. You can't take more money out of people's pockets. I don't think you can build a consensus in this country about environmental policy if you're going to make people poor.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsCountryGrowthPoorEconomicPolicyTaxesAddEnvironmentalPocketsMore MoneyCarbonSlow DownConsensusEconomic GrowthMinusEnvironmental PolicyCarbon Tax Author:Christy Clark
“I grew up in an area of a lot of growth, in Orange County, California, and spent most of my youth on the beach. I had witnessed the degradation of our Back Bay and the increased number of closed beach days over the years.” YearsGrowthNumbersYouthGrewGrew UpAreasBeachCaliforniaOrangeCountyDegradationOrange County Author:Aaron Peirsol
“We're up at almost seven billion people on the planet and most of that growth has been in the developing world.” PeopleWorldHas BeensGrowthPlanetsSevenBillionsDeveloping Author:Kevin Bales
“Obviously in a work capacity I've been tremendously busy running The Trump Organization now that my father's on the campaign trail and my own company and the growth of that. So it's been an amazing time, a wild experience, and an incredible one.” RunningFatherGrowthMy OwnCompanyTrumpCapacityOrganizationIncrediblesBusyCampaignsTrails Author:Ivanka Trump
“Write hand-written notes daily and commit to supporting the growth and self-esteem of children, because it makes such a big difference in terms of their capacity for learning.” WritingChildrenSelfHandsBigsGrowthTermDifferencesWrittenSelf EsteemCapacityNotesCommitEsteem Author:Debra Messing
“The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.” ProcessUnderstandingGrowthLandMaterialsCriticalWeatherCompromiseUnpredictable Author:Andy Goldsworthy