“To date, there has been no serious attempt in Western countries to use laws to control excessive population growth, although there exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated.” Has BeensCountryUseLawGrowthSeriousAuthorityWesternPopulationPopulation Growth Author:John Holdren
“I accept the proposition that there has been a significant improvement in underlying productivity growth in the United States, that it is very closely tied to improvements in information and communications technology, and that it is likely to spread around the world. But I resist the new economy label because it seems to encourage a disrespect for the old rules that could seriously undermine our success in taking advantage of the new opportunities.” WorldHas BeensStatesSeemsOpportunityGrowthUnitedAcceptingTechnologyUnited StatesEconomyInformationCommunicationAdvantageSpreadProductivityImprovementSignificantAround The WorldLabelsTiedPropositionsDisrespectNew OpportunityTaking AdvantageCommunication TechnologyInformation And Communication Author:Laurence Meyer
“We're not on a sustainable path in civilization. We're on an exponential growth curve, on which we perhaps always have been, but it has turned up sharply at the beginning of the 20th century.” Has BeensGrowthPathCenturyCivilization20th CenturyCurvesExponential Growth Author:Edgar Mitchell
“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 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
“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
“You gotta realize that the whole fiasco of the environment, all this global warming hocus-pocus - which the only thing it's done is made Al Gore a multi-millionaire - but, what it's done is, it has been used as a way to curtail growth, to destroy the growth, exploration.” WayHas BeensMadeDoneWholeUsedGrowthRealizingEnvironmentGlobal WarmingExplorationAlsMillionaireGoreFiascoHocus Pocus Author:Rafael Cruz
“Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world.” WorldHas BeensGrowthEconomyGrowingConcernedRemainsRateChinaInvestorsSlowingGrowing Economy Author:Mark Mobius
“Now, thanks to President [Barack] Obama and the policies of Democrats when we have been able to achieve 73 straight months of sustained growth in the private sector. The longest it has been in American history.” Has BeensAbleGrowthPresidentAchievePolicyMonthsDemocratThanksBarackAmerican HistoryPrivate SectorPresident Barack Obama Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most affected.” LittlesHas BeensGovernmentIndividualGrowthConcernPopulationAffectedSlowingPopulation Growth Author:Ruth Simmons
“In the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. But there is still a vast amount of the world where that's not the case. And that is where the big population growth is taking place.” WorldHas BeensStillsBigsGrowthCasesAmountBirthHappeningsWestRatePopulationDroppingPopulation GrowthBirth Rate Author:David Attenborough
“Climate change is due to the use of energy for industrial growth, which has been and is overwhelmingly based on fossil fuels.” Has BeensUseEnergyGrowthClimateClimate ChangeDuesFuelFossilsFossil Fuel Author:Graciela Chichilnisky
“This might seem off the track, but an interesting thing to me that others could talk about better than I, but one of the growth areas in photographic education has been the so-called slow photography.” Has BeensSeemsMightGrowthInterestingPhotographyAreasTrackInteresting Things Author:Sam Abell
“Well I'm not making predictions. But the point I can - what I can say to you to contribute to your thinking is as somebody who has been out knocking on doors, doing the street corners, speaking to constituents right across the country is that the Government - that people understand that the Government's message of jobs and growth is addressing their concerns and they have a level of - a high level of confidence that Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison are the people who can deliver.” PeopleThinkingWellsHas BeensI CanCountryGovernmentJobsGrowthLevelsDoorsStreetsMessagesConcernCornersPredictionsKnockingHigh LevelConstituentsStreet CornersKnocking On Doors Author:George Brandis
“I think the critical point, really, is that we need to focus black economic empowerment more on the creation of new wealth rather than on these big deals that have been characteristic of this process in the past, of people going to banks, borrowing a lot of money, buying this and when the shares don't perform very well, the shares go back to the banks, because there's other people who own this anyway. I think we need to re-focus it so that it really does impact on growth, new investment, new employment and a general, better spread of wealth in South Africa.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWellsDoeHas BeensBigsPastProcessBlackGrowthWealthDealsFocusShareEconomicCreationEmpowermentImpactInvestmentSouthSpreadCriticalEmploymentCharacteristicsBuyingLots Of MoneySouth AfricaBig DealBorrowingEconomic Empowerment Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I think what is true is that there's been an underlying division in the United States. Some of it has to do with the fact that economic growth and recovery tends to be stronger in the cities and in urban areas. In some rural areas, particularly those that were reliant on manufacturing, there has been weaker growth, stagnation, people feeling as if their children won't do as well as they will.” PeopleIfsThinkingWellsChildrenHas BeensStatesFactsFeelingsGrowthUnitedCitiesUnited StatesEconomicAreasStrongerRecoveryDivisionUrbanEconomic GrowthManufacturingStagnationRural AreasUrban Areas Author:Barack Obama
“Growth in productivity has diverged from growth in the share that working people can expect right across advanced economies, but this trend started earlier and has been more pronounced in the U.S.” PeopleHas BeensGrowthEconomyShareProductivityTrends Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“The 20th Century was a bloodbath, and for all the frustrations and failures of the project to unify Europe, the last five decades have been periods of unprecedented peace, growth, and prosperity in Europe.” Has BeensLastsGrowthFiveCenturyPeriodsProjectsEuropeProsperityDecadesFrustration20th CenturyUnprecedented Author:Barack Obama
“Nothing about economic growth in the United States over the course of the past 40, 50 years, during which time this has been continually happening, would indicate that we are being harmed in an overall sense by this.” YearsHas BeensStatesPastCoursesGrowthUnitedUnited StatesEconomicHappeningsEconomic Growth Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“We're [with Donald Trump] working from Day 1, which will be [Monday, January 23 2017], the first full business day of the administration, to begin to roll back the unconstitutional executive orders and an avalanche of regulations that have been stifling growth and jobs in Indiana and across the economy.” FirstsHas BeensJobsOrderGrowthEconomyTrumpAdministrationExecutivesRegulationMondayJanuaryIndianaStiflingUnconstitutionalAvalanchesExecutive Orders Author:Mike Pence
“During the [Barack] Obama presidency, the Dow doubled in real terms. What's more, its growth has been remarkably steady.” Has BeensRealGrowthTermBarackSteadyPresidency Author:Kevin Drum
“Death is inevitable from the perspective that, if you're done here on earth, you have completed what is necessary to have been done here and you are now ready to further the discovery/growth of self which occur in the dimensions - it's time to go.” IfsHas BeensSelfDoneEarthGrowthReadyPerspectiveDiscoveryInevitableDimensions Author:Timothy Treadwell
“The rate of growth of the relevant population is much greater than the rate of growth in funds, though funds have gone up very nicely. But we have been producing students at a rapid rate; they're competing for funds and therefore they're more frustrated. I think there's a certain sense of weariness in the intellectual realm, it's not in any way peculiar to economics, it's a general proposition.” ThinkingWayHas BeensCertainGrowthGoneGreaterStudentsIntellectualEconomicsRatePopulationRealmsFundPeculiarRelevantFrustratedCompetingPropositionsRapidsVery NiceWeariness Author:Kenneth Arrow
“For the three decades after WWII, incomes grew at about 3 percent a year for people up and down the income ladder, but since then most income growth has occurred among the top quintile. And among that group, most of the income growth has occurred among the top 5 percent. The pattern repeats itself all the way up. Most of the growth among the top 5 percent has been among the top 1 percent, and most of the growth among that group has been among the top one-tenth of one percent.” PeopleWayYearsHas BeensThreeGrowthGroupsGrewPercentPatternsDecadesIncomeRepeatsLaddersUp And DownWwii Author:Robert H. Frank
“We can't know at any given time how God will bless our faithful witness. So the apparent numerical growth of the church is never a good guide to how faithful we have been in evangelism.” KnowsHas BeensGivenGrowthChurchGuidesGods WillWitnessFaithfulBlessEvangelism Author:Mark Dever
“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
“Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.” Has BeensSpiritualGrowthMusicalReincarnationRebirth Author:Lenny Kravitz
“Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.” LifeYearsHas BeensWisdomGrowthBeautyTreeGeniusThousandSpringThousand YearsOaksReeds Author:George Henry Lewes
“This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.” IfsHas BeensMomentsAbleGrowthWealthShareDevelopmentBenefitsTradeHuman RightsFavorsGlobalizationCornerstones Author:Barack Obama
“There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.” LongHas BeensGrowthLossProsperityBankingBackboneBanking SystemLoss Of Faith Author:Lucy Powell