“Great leaders in our study treated their people like partners in the organization. That meant they created for their people a sense of connection by teaching them how their jobs impact the larger organization. And they showed them growth opportunities, how they can grow and develop with the company.” PeopleOpportunityGrowthLeaderStudyTeachingGreat Leader Author:Adrian Gostick
“There is too much economic growth not happening that needs to be jump-started. There are too many jobs to be created, and there's too much wealth waiting to be created. If that got going, there'd be no stopping Trump; I don't care what the Democrats think they've got on any of this collusion with the Russians 'cause there's nothing there.” ThinkingCareWaitingGrowthWealthEconomicDemocratEconomic Growth Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Part of the magic of economic growth is how you educate people, and the leading economies have to stay in front of that. From an economic point of view, it affects competitiveness and creates jobs. Or from a social justice point of view, you can take someone in the bottom tier of income and let him compete to be a doctor or lawyer. The education system is the only reason the dream of equal opportunity has a chance of being delivered - and we're not running a good education system.” PeopleReasonDreamRunningOpportunityGrowthJusticeChanceEconomyMagicEconomicEqualSocial JusticeBottomPoint Of ViewLawyerEducateEconomic GrowthEducation SystemEqual OpportunityCompetitivenessGood Education Author:Bill Gates
“State-controlled Associated Press: 'The gross domestic product declines 1% in the second quarter, better than expected.' The bottom line is the economy is still shrinking! It's contracting. There's negative growth. One percent, big whoop, we're supposed to feel happy about this? The only thing that would make me happy about this is if I saw a story that said the government shrunk by 1%. Then we'd be making progress.” GrowthEconomyProgressNegativeBottomGrossMake Me Happy Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I'm getting a little fed up with some of the pessimism that I'm hearing. I know some people who will not be convinced we've really won anything until the media changes. And that isn't gonna happen. They look at the media not liking Trump and they think it's failure. They look at the media ripping Trump and destroying him and they think it's gonna work and it means failure. And I get so fed up. I said, "Do you people not understand we're on the cusp here of one of the most exciting next four years?" The growth potential, the potential of putting America back together.” PeopleThinkingMeanTogetherGrowthExcitingPessimismFed Up Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Going for constant growth is not actually delivering a decent standard of living and the prospect of your children having a better life than you do. That is the key thing that politics needs to deliver: a better life for your children. That's why people are taking their lives in their hands and crossing the Mediterranean and the English Channel.” PeopleChildrenGrowthOur ChildrenYour ChildrenDecentBetter Life Author:Billy Bragg
“There is so much closed-mindedness, there is so much closed-off thought, there is so much bigotry and prejudice within knowledge that it, I think, is stunting the actual intelligence growth of our population. Not our capabilities but our actual intelligence growth because all of the stigma that's attached to people that don't have formal educations as opposed to those who do. But the people that have formal educations have been programmed and indoctrinated in many cases, not in all the disciplines.” PeopleThinkingGrowthDisciplinePrejudiceBigotryCapabilityStigma Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Health care is in as bad a shape as it has ever been after eight years of Barack Obama and the Democrat Party running it and running the US economy. It's an absolute disaster. Other areas of the economy are a disaster. Economic growth? There isn't any. It's 1% per quarter, a 4% growth rate per year if we're lucky. There is no expansion. There is no productivity increase.” CareRunningGrowthPartyEconomyEconomicLuckyDemocratRateProductivityDisasterBarackHealth CareEconomic Growth Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I want every album and every year to be a period of growth - and exponential growth as to what I'm able to do the each time around. I hope that I can really take my music to a place where it's widely heard and I can be touring and playing shows to bigger audiences.” GrowthAudience Author:Tei Shi
“The Donald Trump trade doctrine is this. America will trade with any country, so long as that deal meets these three criterion: You increase the GDP growth rate, you decrease the trade deficit, and you strengthen the manufacturing base.” LongCountryGrowthTradeRate Author:Peter Navarro
“If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.” IfsShouldWarBlackGrowthLosesPovertyEconomicHonestVoteDemocratDiscussionWelfareEconomic GrowthPrivate SectorWar On Poverty Author:Alveda King
“For me, one of the highlights of being in the private equity world is that you need to learn a lot and very quickly about different businesses. So it's always a continuing learning experience where you can apply what you know, of course, by way of judgment and by way of numerical analysis. You're always investing in new businesses, which is a learning experience in itself. I think that is a wonderful thing and I think it makes for intellectual challenge and for continued personal growth. That, for me, is the highlight of this job.” ThinkingWorldDifferentGrowthChallengesWonderfulJudgmentIntellectualPersonal GrowthEquityLearning ExperienceNew Business Author:David Bonderman
“The one-child policy was based on some faulty science and had, as an ambition, reining in Chinese population growth, so as to enhance the per capita wealth of the country.” CountryGrowthWealthPolicyAmbitionChinese Author:Howard W. French
“The entrepreneurial struggle is the same at basically every stage in the sense that there's maybe slightly less risk but strategic issues are generally always the same. Now there's so much existential risk from another company either being able to compete or to disrupt you in the same way you're disrupting somebody else, an entrepreneur needs a real steady partner who has the ability to start working with them in the Seed or the A and be credible and value-add with strategic advice, and just be backstopped by so much capital that you can do any growth round or even a public round.” RealGrowthAbilityStruggleRiskAdviceEntrepreneurSteadyExistentialEntrepreneurial Author:Chamath Palihapitiya
“India is one of the youngest startup nations in the world, and so far, various technology startups have witnessed phenomenal growth. It's amazing how these startups are thriving solely based on domestic demands. It speaks volumes about India's economy and its rich talent pool.” WorldSpeakGrowthTechnologyEconomyRichTalentVariousPoolPhenomenal Author:Bhavin Turakhia
“A lot has changed in India in the last decade. We can attribute the growth of India's startup ecosystem to the increased penetration of affordable smartphones and data connectivity across the country. Technology is no longer a luxury. People across generation and geographies are making use of mobile technologies. Startups have capitalised on this phenomenon.” PeopleCountryGrowthTechnologyChangedPhenomenonGeographyAffordable Author:Bhavin Turakhia
“I think the reason that the Trump economic agenda is beneficial is, he is doing the right things. He wants to see growth, he wants to see to lower taxes, he wants to see this cash pile sitting outside the US return to the US. All of these things I think will be good for the US economy, and as I've said, if the US economy grows, the global economy benefits hugely.” ThinkingReasonGrowthEconomyEconomicTaxesBe GoodRight ThingDoing The Right ThingGlobal Economy Author:Martin Gilbert
“What is different between national inequality and global inequality is you have another element there that is sometimes forgotten: what matters for global inequality is relative growth rates between poor and rich countries.” DifferentCountrySometimesGrowthPoorRichRateForgottenInequalityRelative Author:Branko Milanovic
“I am 38 years old, and I want to live in Puerto Rico and I want to create a path forward for growth. I realize that have come at the most challenging times to become governor, but I want to push things forward.” GrowthRealizingChallengesPathPuerto Rico Author:Ricky Rossello
“Remember, there are no cuts to Medicaid. Every year in Medicaid, you spend more money than you spent the year before under this plan, but the growth is not as great as it would be if you continued to pay, for instance, 100 percent for single able-bodied adults. Now, there is something wrong with the way that system is put together.” TogetherRememberGrowthCutting Author:Roy Blunt
“Vladimir Putin is a smart guy. I don't like him, smart guy. He is going to advance the cause of Russia until he hits a brick wall. He's hit a brick wall in a few areas. I think we need to make it clear that your growth of the former Soviet Union is over. You can be a great power that's respected. Fine. But this is not going to be the old Soviet Union.” ThinkingGuyGrowthWallSmartOver YouSovietSoviet UnionGreat PowerBrick Wall Author:Adam Kinzinger
“Whatever it is that people find that they want to work on they also have to remember that they are human beings and they need to save some time for themselves for personal growth, for mental health, for their families, their loved ones so that they will have the strength to continue doing that work.” PeopleRememberGrowthMental HealthPersonal GrowthLoved Ones Author:Ana Castillo
“I think Taiwan's economy needs an overall structural readjustment. Our new model focuses on innovation and research. This is different from our growth model in the past, which was centered on the manufacturing industry.” ThinkingDifferentPastGrowthEconomyInnovation Author:Tsai Ing-wen
“The skepticism that has grown up about elites is totally justified. Since 2008, no one has gone to jail on Wall Street for the crash and elites have not been able to fix the problem, right? We haven't managed to fix post manufacturing job growth. We haven't fixed the issues to do with immigration.” ProblemGrowthWallImmigrationSkepticismCrashJustified Author:Katty Kay
“I got elected on a commitment to Canadians that I was going to make growth work for everyone. I was going to focus on the middle class and those working hard to join it. I was going to make sure that the people who felt that the growth in the economy had left them behind would be included. That's similar to the promise that got Trump elected. Now, our approaches to the same problems are somewhat different. But in my conversations with him, we've very much been able to agree that we want to help the citizens of our countries in tangible ways.” PeopleDifferentCountryHelpingProblemGrowthEconomyFocusPromiseCommitmentAgreeMiddle Class Author:Justin Trudeau
“Trade is good for the economy. Trade creates growth. The problem is that it creates growth but it does not think about distribution of the benefits of that growth.” ThinkingProblemGrowthEconomyTrade Author:Justin Trudeau
“If you think about conservative ideas, conservative principles, the fact that Donald Trump goes back at George W. Bush over weapons of mass destruction or gets into fights with the pope, and there's no outreach in terms of growth of the party. I think lots of people fear for the future of the party.” PeopleThinkingFightingGrowthTermPartyDestructionConservativePopeWeapons Of Mass DestructionOutreach Author:Juan Williams
“If the population curve is on an exponential growth, and the resources are on an exponential decline, what happens first is you get increases in wealth discrepancy, which means that you get rich pockets of gated communities with security guards outside them, and you get more and more poverty outside that area.” MeanGrowthCommunityWealthPovertyRichSecurityGet Rich Author:Neill Blomkamp
“I was at the World Bank and a commission reviewed our work on inequality for the U.S. Congress or somebody, and the head of the commission said to us: "You are spending taxpayer money to study issues like inequality? Which goes directly against capitalism and growth." That was the perception, that it should not be studied.” WorldGrowthStudyPerceptionCapitalismInequality Author:Branko Milanovic
“You go back and look at the situations from both angles, and that's where the progress and the growth came, by being able to look at it from the other side. Moving forward, knowing to do the right thing was learning from my mistakes of the past. Sometimes it's just, don't do that.” SometimesPastMovingGrowthMistakeSituationProgressMoving ForwardRight ThingMy Mistakes Author:Richie Incognito
“If you look at how the US economy has suffered over the last 15 or 20 years, it's in significant part because we haven't done the investments in research and development and infrastructure and other public goods that are necessary for our growth. And, unfortunately, we're going to be feeling that overhang for a long time to come, because it's the investments we made in the 1950s and '60s and '70s that result in some of the greatest technological breakthroughs that we enjoy today.” LongDoneFeelingsTodayEnjoyGrowthEconomyInvestmentSignificantTechnologicalBreakthrough Author:Jacob Hacker
“Workplace culture within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to thrive is basically, an environment that gives people the chance or even pushes them to try new activities and take on new challenges that build on the skills and experiences they have.” PeopleGivingTryingCultureGrowthChallengesChanceEnvironmentPersonal GrowthThriveWorkplace Author:Joseph Badaracco
“We have to acknowledge that we can't look to manufacturing or natural resources to drive growth like we have in the past. Human capital, talent, and knowledge are our most important resources now. Every city has hidden seeds of opportunity waiting to be nurtured. Places like Detroit, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh are among my favorite cities. They have great universities, clusters of innovation across a range of industries, and pools of innovative and creative talent to build on.” ImportantPastOpportunityWaitingGrowthNaturalCreativeTalentInnovationMy FavoriteAcknowledgePoolInnovativeNatural Resources Author:Richard Florida
“Every single human being is creative and maximizing that creativity is critical to happiness and economic growth. Economic growth is driven by creativity, so if we want to increase it, we have to tap into the creativity of everyone. That's what makes me optimistic. For the first time in human history, the basic logic of our economy dictates that further economic development requires the further development and use of human creative capabilities. The great challenge of our time is to find ways to tap into every human's creativity.” GrowthChallengesCreativityEconomyCreativeEconomicFirst TimeLogicDrivenOptimisticCapabilityEconomic GrowthEconomic Development Author:Richard Florida
“The first thing I'd say is stop paying such attention to Trump's tweets. They're a total distraction. I think we should instead be carefully watching the actions of groups like Freedom Partners, Chamber of Commerce, the Koch's big donor operation. The Club for Growth is another part of this, and Americans for Prosperity on the ground.” ThinkingActionGrowthAttentionProsperityDistractionTweet Author:Nancy MacLean
“When you look at somebody like a Netanyahu, to simply not understand that this is a right-wing politician, a guy who kind of crashed the United States Congress to give his speech there, ignoring President Obama, not even consulting with him, using it for political purposes back home, a guy who has supported the youth - the growth of settlement, I think the - the overreaction and the destruction of Gaza went too, too far. Israel should not be bombing schools or homes, just terrible damage there.” ThinkingGivingKindHomeSchoolPoliticalPurposeGuyGrowthPresidentYouthPoliticianTerribleDestructionPresident ObamaSettlementGaza Author:Bernie Sanders
“The growth of violent extremism is partly a consequence of how the developed world has become complacent and defensive about its own greatness and ambition.” WorldGrowthGreatnessAmbitionConsequenceViolentExtremismComplacent Author:Garry Kasparov
“I would like to have a Europe that has a strong foreign and defense policy, ensures economic growth and is active in addressing the issues of the refugee crisis. But perhaps not one that imposes new regulations on allergens that requires food menus to be changed everywhere. When that happens, it creates the feeling that the wrong priorities are being set.” FeelingsStrongGrowthEconomicPolicyChangedCrisisPrioritiesRefugeeEconomic Growth Author:Sebastian Kurz
“It`s not just Republicans. It`s Republicans and Democrats. It`s middle class, lower middle class, working class Americans who have felt the angst, who are frustrated, who are angry as a result of 1% growth which, in my view, has been really the issue that has propelled Donald Trump from day one.” GrowthRepublicanDemocratMiddle ClassFrustratedWorking ClassAngst Author:Bob Ehrlich
“At some point - I care about charter schools and criminal justice reform and $20 trillion in debt and real growth. At some point, I want to hear that clash of ideas. I don`t care if it gets ugly. That`s what campaigns are all about.” RealCareSchoolGrowthJusticeDon't CareUglyI Don't CareI CareClashCriminal JusticeCharter Author:Bob Ehrlich
“If I look back at the songs I was writing when I was effectively a child, there's a big contrast, so I've learnt a lot along the way. I think it's a confidence thing; the biggest thing that's affected me, both in writing and performing, is a growth in confidence.” ThinkingWritingChildrenSongGrowthPerformingContrast Author:Marika Hackman
“Common sense! It's nothing more than common sense for the preservation of our culture, the preservation of our country, the preservation and growth of our economy. And yet Jim Acosta and Glenn Thrush - and everybody in the press corps and practically every other Democrat - hears this and the only reaction they have is, "No compassion! No compassion for the less fortunate! No compassion for the victims of the world!"” WorldCountryCultureGrowthCommonCompassionEconomyVictimDemocratCommon SenseNo Compassion Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I saw Nader shortly before the election and - I voted him the time before, because I liked the sort of long-term strategy of building a viable third party. So, okay, we'll get enough votes, you get a little bit more money, and maybe, if there's continued growth, then maybe eventually there's hope for a viable, legitimate third party. I think the reason why I didn't vote for him last time was because we tried that and it didn't work. Ralph Nader is a very smart guy, and I think he's got a lot of good ideas.” ThinkingReasonEnoughGuyGrowthPartyBuildingSmartOkayVoteElectionStrategyLast TimeVery Smart Author:Aaron McGruder
“If there's something else already out there in the universe, it would almost certainly have puts limits on our growth of intelligence. And the reason it would have put limits on us is because it doesn't want us to grow so intelligent that we would one day maybe take away their superpowered intelligence. Whatever advanced intelligence evolves, it always puts a roadblock in the way of other intelligences evolving. And the reason this happens is so nobody can take away one's power, no matter how far up the ladder they've gone.” ReasonUniverseGrowthOne DayIntelligentEvolveWant URoadblock Author:Zoltan Istvan
“We are under the stifling regulation and taxes of a predominantly left-wing type of thinking and philosophy. The eight years of Barack Obama have shrouded this country in punitive regulations. We haven't had economic growth higher than one and a half percent for the last eight or nine years, and that was done on purpose. There have been robust times in the past, and there are a lot of people right now that are doing well and are growing. But generally it ought to be much better in the past. There needs to be an economic revival.” PeopleThinkingCountryDonePhilosophyPastPurposeGrowthEconomicTaxesBarackRevivalEconomic Growth Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When I first came into acting, I had great opportunities to make a decent movie. I had a run there in 2005, '06, '07 - for a long time it was "Oh, he's the best thing in the movie that's not that good." I started questioning: Did I make the right choice? Should I have stayed in wrestling a bit longer? And then budgets became lower and lower and the pay kinda stayed the same and there wasn't a lot of growth.” LongRunningChoicesOpportunityGrowthActingDecentWrestlingQuestioningGreat Opportunity Author:Dwayne Johnson
“China's accumulation of reserves is a result of the IMF's mismanagement of the Asian financial crisis a decade or so ago. If countries know they can't rely on the IMF to help them, their best defense is their own reserve cushion. In a time of spreading global recession, too much emphasis on savings in surplus countries like China can impede prospects for global growth.” CountryHelpingGrowthCrisisFinancialRelyFinancial CrisisMismanagement Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“Many people are unhappy because there was some point in their past where there was some glory day, and as they get older they're not creating more glory days. They reflect on a time that they will never reach again, and it brings some level of dissatisfaction into their lives. I have circumvented that by simply making incumbent upon myself to always be productive in ways that are consistent with my physical body, my mental state of knowledge, but more important, my presumed growth in wisdom that would come with age.” PeopleImportantAgePastGrowthGloryUnhappyConsistentProductiveDissatisfaction Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Filmmakers need to give the audience that something extra, an incentive to spend money and go to the multiplex - the ticket prices are high. Otherwise they'd just stay home, buy DVDs or download movies. But if there were only big budget movies it would be impossible for the film industry to survive. So I emphasize the importance of mid-range films. But those films need the support of theatre owners. The theatre chains have to have the vision to realize the need to support smaller films for the growth of the domestic film industry.” GivingHomeFilmGrowthRealizingVisionSupportAudienceImpossibleImportanceTheatreFilmmakerExtras Author:Gordon Chan
“I really am convinced that what is happening in media today is the result of the birth of conservative media and its rapid growth and ascension. It has destroyed the left's monopoly in media. When they had the monopoly, they could pretend that they were not what they are and get away with it. They could pretend to be objective. You know, the power of a monopoly is not just determining what stories you are going to cover, but what you don't cover is just as powerful.” TodayGrowthPowerfulBirthConservativeGet Away Author:Rush Limbaugh