“Because in our boom times, everything is growing, usually, you know, the kind of things that come to mind are Wild, Wild, West, or land grabs, you know, these sorts of things, in order to make something, you know, kind of to grow into the future and to get all the growth that you need to have. So you tend to hire a lot because you're running fast to the future.” KnowsNeedsMindKindRunningOrderGrowsGrowthGrowingLandWestWild WestRunning FastWild Wild West Author:Reid Hoffman
“My approach is to be honest-really honest-and consistent. That is what any growth will take. It is an issue I think [young] generation can be courageous enough to comb through.” ThinkingEnoughYoungGrowthIssuesGenerationsHonestApproachBeing HonestConsistentCourageousBe CourageousCombsYoung Generation Author:Michaela Angela Davis
“I'm a very wide reader. I read serious books and I read airplane, forgettable books. I never have fewer than four or five books beside my bed at night. I particularly enjoy reading about people who have gone through a personal growth.” PeopleBookNightReadingEnjoyGrowthGoneFiveFourSeriousReaderBedPersonal GrowthWideFewerAirplaneForgettable Author:Mary Robinson
“An old-growth forest, a mountain range or a river valley is more important and certainly more loveable than any country will ever be.” ImportantCountryGrowthMountainRiversForestsRangeValleysMountain Ranges Author:Arundhati Roy
“Ever since the Great Depression, we know that one of the key ways in which the US economy has stimulated growth is by manufacturing weapons and exporting war to other countries.” KnowsWayWarCountryGrowthEconomyKeysWeaponsOther CountriesManufacturingGreat DepressionExporting Author:Arundhati Roy
“There's a certain age when your height stops growing and you cannot change that. This sort of body growth cannot be fixed. But there are many things that can be changed. You might have a small body structure but there are opportunities to make yourself very fit and healthy. So we'll have to work hard in many aspects.” HardBodyMightAgeCertainOpportunityGrowthGrowingChangedHard WorkFitHealthyAspectStructureFixedHeight Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Education affects every major challenge we face in society. It creates economic growth, paves the way for peace and stability and helps erase the legacy of marginalization.” WayHelpingFacesGrowthChallengesEconomicMajorsLegacyStabilityEconomic GrowthEraseMarginalizationChallenges We Face Author:Shakira
“Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in a woman's wages later in life. Education lowers the risk of disease and decreases the likelihood that a child will fall into violence and crime. And a child born to a literate mother is 50 percent more likely to survive past age five. No country has achieved sustained growth without at least 40 percent literacy for its adults.” YearsChildrenCountryAgePastMotherFallGrowthBornFiveViolenceRiskCrimeDiseasePercentAdultsIncreasePrimariesWagesLiteracySpursDecreaseLikelihoodLater In LifePrimary Education Author:Shakira
“I think the problem is these basic sort of human values from our - from the beginning, from birth, are not sort of properly nurtured. So then our mind, our brain, through education and also difference of experiences, that eventually, these basic values or what are called dominant, not have the catching up our intelligence, experience growth, that also should grow. Then our life become more human.” ThinkingShouldMindHumansProblemValuesGrowsGrowthDifferencesBrainOur LivesBirthDominantCatchingHuman ValuesCatching Up Author:Dalai Lama
“Let's take Southeast Asia. The last 20, 30 years has been what's called the "Asian Miracle" - fast economic growth, industrial society. It's happening all over, with one exception, which one? The Philippines is the one that can't grow, which the US has been running for 100 years. Is there a correlation? Have you read about it? It comes to mind, at least.” YearsMindHas BeensRunningLastsGrowsGrowthEconomicHappeningsMiracleExceptionAsiaAsianEconomic GrowthPhilippinesCorrelationSoutheast Asia Author:Noam Chomsky
“If you wish to produce a perfect rose, you must cut off the other buds which are spoiling the growth of the perfect flower.” IfsWishGrowthPerfectCuttingProduceFlowerRoseBud Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Ugliness and evil are necessary for growth but they may be experienced vicariously.” MayEvilGrowthUgliness Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.” GrowthContentmentDecayStagnation Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“As we move toward the pluralist commonwealth, economic interventions that stabilize communities - for instance by localizing the flows of goods and services or by promoting worker ownership - not only have immediate practical benefits but provide the necessary preconditions for the growth and development of a renewed culture of sustainable democracy that can serve as the basis for still further transformations at larger scales.” StillsMovingCultureGrowthCommunityDemocracyEconomicDevelopmentBenefitsFlowBasesTransformationWorkersScalesPracticalsInstanceGoodsOwnershipInterventionPromotingCommonwealthGoods And Services Author:Gar Alperovitz
“The impact of QE on generating more lending by Wall Street to Main Street and in generating more employment and increasing overall investment in the economy is quite modest. QE probably limited the initial collapse of the economy in 2008, and likely had a very small positive impact on economic growth, but its broader impact on jobs and growth in the economy seems not very big.” BigsSeemsJobsGrowthEconomyEconomicStreetsWallImpactInvestmentEmploymentCollapseModestInitialsEconomic GrowthLendingPositive ImpactMain Street Author:Gerald Epstein
“Initially, QE contributed to a pretty significant increase in inequality. It raised asset prices, which are owned primarily by the wealthy, while having relatively small if any positive impacts on bank lending, employment, wages or economic growth, so ordinary people haven't had much help. By the third round of QE in 2012-2014, the effects had likely muted quite a bit. There were probably not big impacts on asset prices from QE and the positive effects on employment growth might have strengthened somewhat.” PeopleIfsHelpingBigsMightBitsGrowthEconomicEffectsHavensOrdinaryThirdsIncreaseImpactRaisedRoundsSignificantEmploymentInequalityWealthyAssetsWagesOrdinary PeopleEconomic GrowthLendingPositive ImpactHaving StrengthBig Impact Author:Gerald Epstein
“Increases in interest rates normally worsen inequality, at least partly by reducing employment and wage growth.” GrowthInterestIncreaseRateEmploymentInequalityReducingInterest Rate Author:Gerald Epstein
“America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already lived there including very developed societies such as the Incas, the Aztecs, and the Mayans. But then came the European vision that saw the conquest as a source of advanced growth away from medieval Europe. The new revolutionary bourgeois trend formed a new perspective on what was democracy that they saw as an improvement to the democracy of ancient Greece.” PeopleNeedsWholeAmericaGrowthVisionDemocracySawsGroupsSourcePerspectiveEuropeIncludingAncientImprovementRevolutionaryTrendsConquestGreeceMedievalBourgeoisNew PerspectiveAncient GreeceMayansMedieval EuropeIncas Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“Not only in Canada but in other countries where we have to rely on immigration for our growth, the question of coexistence of values in communities is important. It has to be dealt with.” ImportantCountryValuesGrowthCommunityImmigrationRelyCanadaOther CountriesCoexistence Author:Philippe Couillard
“There are times when a market such as housing, transportation or the stock or mortgage market keep rising and people with capital want to join in this growth. Soon the markets become overheated, partly because of the abundance of investment money and speculation. This is when the government should raise interest rates and increase the cost of borrowed money. Governments are shy about doing this because it could cause the very recession. Yet this is the best time to do this so that the inevitable recession never reaches the magnitude of the recent Great Recession.” PeopleWantShouldGovernmentCausesGrowthInterestCostIncreaseRaisesInvestmentRateInevitableRisingAbundanceShySpeculationHousingMortgageTransportationBorrowedMagnitudeRecessionsBest TimesInterest RateBorrowed MoneyGreat Recession Author:Philip Kotler
“I admire companies that have a purpose, passion, and performance. I am a fan of Unilever under its CEO Paul Polman, not only for the company's insights into women and men when they buy beauty products or skin products (the DOVE woman, the AXE man), but also as a company seeking to achieve both growth and practicing social responsibility.” MenPurposePassionSocialGrowthResponsibilityCompanyFansAchieveProductsMen And WomenSkinsPerformancesSeekingInsightAdmireCeoSocial ResponsibilityDoveBeauty Products Author:Philip Kotler
“CEOs need to produce continuous growth in sales and profits. Yet they must also invest in sustainability and social responsibility, which then leave them less money for financing their growth.” NeedsSocialGrowthResponsibilityProduceProfitSustainabilityCeoSocial ResponsibilityFinancingContinuous Growth Author:Philip Kotler
“The economy of the 21st century will come to center on agriculture. Life will be intensely and profoundly local in ways that we can't conceive of today. Economic growth, as we have known it in a cheap energy industrial paradigm, will cease.” WayTodayEnergyGrowthKnownEconomyEconomicCenturyCeaseLocalsAgriculture21st CenturyEconomic GrowthParadigm Author:James Howard Kunstler
“I think we did a really good job in saving this economy and putting us back on the track of growth.” ThinkingJobsGrowthEconomyTrackSavingGood Job Author:Barack Obama
“London had always been different. There is the old saying that Britain is ten years behind America, and the country as a whole is ten years behind London. If you have a Mayor of London working for jobs and growth and strong businesses, that is going to create opportunities for businesses and people in Burnley or Hull and places all over the UK.” PeopleIfsYearsDifferentCountryWholeJobsAmericaOpportunityStrongGrowthBehindsTenLondonBritainMayorsOld SayingHull Author:Sadiq Khan
“I wanna show you I can out-rap your favorite rappers. I wanna show you I can out-produce your favorite producers. So I'm constantly getting better and I understand that there's always room for growth, especially in quality, sonic quality.” I CanShowsGrowthRoomsQualityProduceRapProducersGet BetterRapperYour Favorite Author:J. Cole
“I think that I work hard to make my music as a diary for new generations who find out about it years later. They can go through the history and see a trail. It's straight and narrow, you can see the growth and understand that I'm not afraid to give you honesty and be honest about anything that has to do with my story.” ThinkingGivingYearsHardStoriesGrowthGenerationsHonestHonestyHard WorkBeing HonestNot AfraidTrailsDiariesNew Generation Author:Adrian Marcel
“I think everybody is in agreement that America is a great entrepreneurial nation. We have got to encourage that. Of course, we have to support small and medium-sized businesses. But you can have all of the growth that you want and it doesn't mean anything if all of the new income and wealth is going to the top 1 percent.” IfsThinkingWantMeanAmericaCoursesNationsGrowthWealthSupportPercentIncomeMediumsAgreementEntrepreneurial Author:Bernie Sanders
“When we talk about economic growth, we're not talking about bringing a bunch of companies in that can make a bunch of bucks and hope they spend 'em in our city. We're talking about creating jobs, creating new companies and then we move from there to talk about cooperatives which can become some of those jobs, some of the solidarity economy where we can begin to band together people so they'll understand that a job is not a single individual affair but a collective affair.” PeopleTogetherJobsMovingIndividualGrowthCitiesCompanyTalkingEconomyEconomicBandCreatingAffairBunchEmsCollectivesSolidarityEconomic GrowthBucksNot TalkingCooperativesCreating JobsNew Company Author:Chokwe Lumumba
“I often think there are three primary responses to suffering - rage, intoxication, or growth. We either want revenge for our pain, or we numb ourselves with the endless array of intoxicants available to us, from drugs to overwork, or we grow in empathy. Emptiness can transform into spaciousness; lack can become an agent of social action. But I think many of us struggle to remain on that third path without backsliding into the other two. I do.” ThinkingWantTwoActionPainSufferingThreeSocialGrowsGrowthStrugglePathDrugEmpathyThirdsResponseAvailableRevengeRageEndlessAgentsPrimariesEmptinessNumbIntoxicationOverworkSocial ActionSpaciousnessBacksliding Author:C.E. Morgan
“I am always looking for inspiration. I always live in big cities where I can go every day to a museum, see a lecture, meet people that are artists, go to the cinema. For me, it's like food. It is necessary for my personal growth as a person to grow as an artist, I go basically every week to three or four things. But it's real life that inspires me - when I meet somebody, when I see something.” PeoplePersonsI CanRealBigsInspirationArtistThreeGrowsGrowthCitiesFourWeekInspirePersonal GrowthReal LifeCinemaMuseumsLecturesBig CitiesLooking For Inspiration Author:Blanca Li
“I'm realizing that the people who criticize what I'm doing, their intentions and comments are not actually real.There's nothing happening in the real world outside of whatever they're writing on the internet. Whereas for the people who feel inspired by what I'm doing, there's something so concrete and powerful in what's happening when they feel empowered. There's actually some kind of growth or self-acceptance, some kind of self-love that's actually being triggered, hopefully. And that's real.” PeopleWorldWritingKindRealGrowthRealizingPowerfulInternetIntentionInspiredHopefullyCriticizeCommentReal WorldConcreteEmpowered Author:Amandla Stenberg
“Here's the positive scenario: that something has been going wrong in American society. You see it in wage growth, opioid abuse, many other social indicators, as you know. Sometimes it's better to get the bad reaction to that over with quickly while your civil society still is strong and you can react and respond and protest, and you know, four or eight years from now, make another decision, and maybe it's better to have that happen in 2017 than 20 years later when some of our problems are worse and our national mood is worse.” SometimesProblemStrongGrowthDecisionAbuseMoodProtestCivil Society Author:Tyler Cowen
“There are two economic realities in America in 2016. There's been a record six straight years of job growth, and new census numbers show incomes have increased at a record rate after years of stagnation. However, income inequality remains significant, and nearly half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.” RealityGrowthEconomicRateSignificantInequalityStagnation Author:Lester Holt
“The result of this anti-classical revolution you had just before World War I was that today, almost all the economic growth in the last decade has gone to the One Percent. It's gone to Wall Street, to real estate.” WorldWarRealTodayGrowthEconomicRevolutionWallWar Of The WorldsWorld War IEconomic Growth Author:Michael Hudson
“Today's national income statistics make it appear that Goldman Sachs is productive. As if Donald Trump plays a productive role. The aim is to make it appear that people who take money from the rest of the economy without working are productive, despite not really providing any service that actually contributes to GDP and economic growth.” PeopleGrowthEconomyEconomicAimProductiveEconomic Growth Author:Michael Hudson
“I've seen beautiful and profound change and growth in men who are becoming fathers. Women get to carry the baby, so you might get a little head start on them, but watching a man get to know the little person, seeing that bond evolve and seeing the difference in the relationship between fathers and their sons and daughters, is fascinating.” MenBeautifulFatherGrowthSonBabyDaughterProfoundEvolveHead Start Author:Liv Tyler
“I think sometimes when you can feel the velocity of change, like nowadays, you really need a seat belt. It's almost like having a growth spurt that you can feel, like a 16-year-old who woke up one day and grew four inches literally overnight. That can be a painful thing sometimes.” ThinkingSometimesGrowthOne DayPainful Author:Sarah Paulson
“What really has helped me through my own breakups has been learning tools to self-soothe, reframe, and forgive, and how to channel negative energy into positive. Resilience is a muscle. Learning how to cope and process painful emotions is a muscle. And I've been through enough ups and downs to know that you have a choice. You can use breakups, which are pivotal points in life, as a catalyst for growth, or you can choose to have it make you jaded and more fear-based.” EnoughChoicesEnergyGrowthEmotionNegativeForgivingPainfulResilienceBreakupUps & Downs Author:Amy Chan
“Be kind and gentle on yourself. In this fast-paced world, we are so hard on ourselves and impatient with healing. Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do to speed up the process. Sure, you can numb the pain or distract yourself, but if you don't allow yourself to process the emotion in a healthy way, the pain and darkness just gets buried deep inside you, and eventually comes up in your future relationships. Stop blaming yourself, and instead try to look for the lesson and the growth opportunity.” WorldTryingKindPainOpportunityGrowthEmotionHealingDarknessHealthyBlameSpeedGentleBe KindOur FutureImpatientNumb Author:Amy Chan
“Get support and be surrounded by people who love you. Sit with the discomfort and the emotions instead of distracting yourself and numbing the pain, or it will just haunt you in another form in the future. Don't be afraid of the pain and darkness. There's information there. There's a lesson to be learned. You can use the experience as a catalyst for growth.” PeoplePainGrowthEmotionDarknessSupportLove You Author:Amy Chan
“Try to look at the bigger picture. The majority of people you date will not be your destination. They were meant to be a bridge. So find the lesson, the growth opportunity so you don't have to keep repeating your pattern and crossing that same bridge over and over again. Once you learn what you need to learn and become more self-aware and emotionally healthy, you will then cross another bridge, and one day you'll get to your destination.” PeopleTryingOpportunityGrowthHealthyOne DayMeant To BeBigger Picture Author:Amy Chan
“I think immigration has been one of the vital things about the growth of America. I'm the product of grandparents who all immigrated from Greece. I hope eventually we have proper immigration.” ThinkingGrowthImmigrationGrandparentGreece Author:Jamie Dimon
“It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you. But figuratively speaking, I'm really into growth, so when I look in the mirror, I see somebody who's just trying to get better everyday.” TryingArtistGrowthEverydayStaringGet Better Author:Omari Hardwick
“When people talk about people being left behind - middle wages have not gone up for years, and we should recognize that, and there I think we need growth and skills - but there are these other people who have been left behind. When I say out loud, "Fifty percent of inner-city schoolkids do not graduate from high school," that is a national catastrophe. We should be ringing the alarm bells. It's not fair.” PeopleThinkingSchoolGrowthHigh SchoolGraduatesCatastropheLeft Behind Author:Jamie Dimon
“In real life, I knew that fandom was made up of women, and women of color, and women of all ages. But on the publishing side of comics, it was a lot of white, straight men. It was often jarring to me to be the only women at a meeting or at a panel at a comic-con. Fortunately I had mentors who were not blinded by my gender and who said, "Yes, we know you can write these books." That hasn't been the case for everyone. What gives me great hope is that in the eight to nine years since I've started, I've seen tremendous growth.” MenGivingWritingBookRealAgeGrowthMen And WomenMeetingsGenderReal LifeMentorPublishing Author:Marjorie M. Liu
“Chicago has always been a very segregated city and Mt. Greenwood is an example of that. I can't say I've seen organized white-supremacist growth, but I have seen racial tensions increase. I think we've all seen that. In the Barack Obama presidency, especially, the far right has considered diversity a code word for white genocide.” ThinkingGrowthDiversityBarackCodeTensionGenocide Author:Christian Picciolini
“We're happy with what we've achieved. Every record we've made has furthered the growth of our line of success. It's never disappeared or gone backward: each record sells more, each tour is bigger.” Growth Author:Kim Thayil
“I'm the CEO of a small growing company, and at each stage of our growth, it's become apparent to me that I need to adapt my leadership style and learn new approaches. When I completed the assessment, asking my own team to provide feedback on the 15 qualities of presence, I learned a lot about the leader I have yet to become.” GrowthQualityLeaderTeamStyleCeoFeedback Author:Suzanne Bates