“Whatever it is, in a 1% GDP world, I think people feel like there are other things they have to do other than just organic growth.” PeopleThinkingWorldFeelsGrowthGdp Author:Ken Moelis
“Well, well-run companies always have a focus on growth and the two lines, which includes profit. The key thing during, I think, tough times, is to make sure that you've covered the basis for when something, you know, essentially things taking longer, bad luck, adversity, other kinds of circumstances may occur. Make sure that you can monitor to win, it's potentially, you know, something is going to go wrong, monitor early enough, and then take appropriate action to essentially counteract that or shift your strategy or plan, even if in fact something is not working out as well as it is.” IfsThinkingKnowsWellsKindMayTwoEnoughFactsRunningActionWinningGrowthLinesCompanyFocusPlansKeysCircumstancesToughBasesAdversityLuckStrategyProfitWork OutAppropriateCoveredTough TimesBad LuckKey Things 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 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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 was 16 was just thinking about the future and - it sounds so stupid - but what my goal was going to be in life. I guess I was thinking about girls too. No girls liked me. That was bothering me. I was thinking about my height - I had a growth spurt right before high school and then that's when sports coaches started coming up to me, but that's when I had this artistic turn.” ThinkingSchoolGirlSportsGoalGrowthStupidHigh SchoolCoachesArtisticBother Author:Christian Madsen
“Most companies think of disruption as a threat. But disruptive innovations have tremendous growth potential. If incumbent companies can learn how to harness the forces of disruption, they too can improve their ability to create new-growth businesses.” ThinkingGrowthAbilityInnovationThreat Author:Clayton Christensen
“Architects and urbanists are fascinated with cities that are shrinking, like the Rust Belt cities. Or, alternatively, we are fascinated with the growth of favelas and informal settlements. The 2008 financial crisis made these changes more extreme. The subtraction protocols rehearse a way of thinking about multiple properties in counterbalancing interdependence - not just the shaping of one property but the ratcheting interplay between properties.” ThinkingGrowthCrisisPropertyFinancialArchitectMultipleSettlementInterdependenceFinancial Crisis Author:Keller Easterling
“Facion goes in cycles but nothing has changed. When it's ridiculous it's more ridiculous than ever, and when it's wonderful it becomes more wonderful than ever because now more people think: "I dress the body I have, not I have to change the body to wear the fashion." That's what I admire about the growth of the fashion industry. I also think it's wonderful that there is the opportunity to use different textures and fabrics on different colour skins. I am inspired by that.” PeopleThinkingDifferentOpportunityGrowthWonderfulFashionChangedSkinsInspiredRidiculousAdmireFashion IndustryThings Have Changed Author:Carmen Dell'Orefice
“As you think, so shall you become.” ThinkingInspirationalMotivationalMotivationGrowthLearningGreatnessAthleteWork OutSwimming Author:Bruce Lee
“I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.” ThinkingLifeInspirationalLittlesI CanMomentsInspirationSuccessGrowsGrowthCan DoSuccessfulDoubtGrowingPositiveReadyEmpowermentOvercomingPersonal GrowthUncertaintyPushingExecutivesThat MomentWowStrong WomenCeoBreakthroughLife Is ShortEmpowering WomenBeing A WomanStay PositiveReadinessNot ReadyTaking RisksPowerful WomenRisk-takingPush YourselfEmpowered WomenWomen Empowering WomenInspirational WomenSuccessful WomenInspirational Strong WomenGreat WomenStrong FemaleBusiness WomanI Am WomanStrong InspirationalI Can Do ThisWomen LeadershipStrong Women MotivationGreat FemaleDefine Success Author:Marissa Mayer
“I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.” ThinkingGrowthEmploymentAgendasEmphasis Author:Angela Merkel
“Even your most talented employees have room for growth in some area, and you're doing your employee a disservice if the sum of your review is: 'You're great!' No matter how talented the employee, think of ways he could grow towards the position he might want to hold two, five, or 10 years down the line.” IfsThinkingWayWantYearsTwoMatterMightGrowsGrowthLinesRoomsFivePositionAreasEmployeeReviewsDisservice Author:Kathryn Minshew
“Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues.” ThinkingWellsRealityGrowthPresidentEconomyStudyCuttingEconomicTaxesRateRevenueEconomic GrowthPresident BushTax CutsPresident Kennedy Author:Mike Pence
“Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” ThinkingHandsGrowthTomorrowInnovationYesterdaySufficientArroganceInnovativeHand In HandCreativity And InnovationBusiness InnovationInnovation And BusinessContinuous LearningInnovative Leadership Author:William Pollard
“I think the most beautiful thing is that we're not parting because there were problems. We're parting because we're celebrating each others' growth.” ThinkingProblemBeautifulGrowthCelebrateBeautiful ThingsParting Author:Kelly Rowland
“Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.” IfsThinkingKnowsTwoWould BeLastsOpportunityGrowthTermBusinessGoneRight NowGoldInnovationGood ThingsResilienceNew ThingsCreativity And InnovationBusiness InnovationNew OpportunityInnovation And BusinessContinuous LearningNuggetsGold Rush Author:Jeff Bezos