“Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.” TwoProblemLastsCultureGrowthKnownCenturyAmountDependentStabilityPrincipalIncapableParallelsConstraintsReckoningContinuanceExponential Growth Author:M. King Hubbert
“The new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge.” GrowthEconomyCenturyAriseConsumption21st CenturyConstraintsEcological Author:Graciela Chichilnisky
“Water is an astonishingly complex and subtle force in an economy. It is the single constraint on the expansion of every city, and bankers and corporate executives have cited it as the only natural limit to economic growth.” ForceGrowthWaterNaturalCitiesEconomyEconomicLimitsComplexesCorporateSubtleExecutivesExpansionEconomic GrowthBankersConstraints Author:Margaret Catley-Carlson
“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 anybody who knows anything about South Africa and the South African economy would know that one of the big constraints to growth and development is skills shortages. So all of us, need to come at this thing as vigorously as is possible and, of course, the private sector has the capacity to take it on board.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsBigsCoursesGrowthEconomyDevelopmentSkillsCapacitySouthBoardsSouth AfricaConstraintsPrivate SectorShortage Author:Thabo Mbeki