“The three main political parties all agree the UK deficit is high and needs to be brought down. All agree that it is easier to get a deficit down if you have faster growth, cutting unemployment-related costs and raising revenues.” IfsNeedsPoliticalThreeGrowthPartyCuttingEasierCostAgreeFasterRelatedUnemploymentPolitical PartiesRevenueDeficit Author:John Redwood
“I'm at a point in my life where I have three kids. I'm a father, and you start to take stock and measure yourself as a man and see where there's room for growth.” MenKidsThreeFatherGrowthRooms Author:Greg Bryk
“I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be living in a world dominated by the People's Republic. China is simply inexorable in its pursuit of wealth, growth and power. It cares little about human rights, democracy, labor protections, fair trade rules or the environment. It is relentless in advancing its national interests.” PeopleWorldHumansLittlesStatesCareTogetherThreeGrowthInterestWealthUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyEnvironmentRightsWeekFairsLaborTradeHuman RightsChinaProtectionSpendingConvincedPursuitRepublicGrandchildrenRelentlessAdvancingInexorableTibetNational InterestsFair TradePursuit Of Wealth Author:Mort Kondracke
“Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied; fast, for the fleeting weeks and months of childhood; and in between, the centuries of growth of our ideas through history.” YearsMindIdeasDifferentThreeGrowthBrainWeekChildhoodCenturyTheoryMonthsBillionsScalesFleeting Author:Marvin Minsky
“If the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two or three years... we would not have had the kind of job growth we've had.” IfsYearsKindTwoJobsLastsThreeGrowthPolicyDemocraticThree YearsPursuedJob Growth Author:Dick Cheney
“Significant changes in the growth rate of money supply, even small ones, impact the financial markets first. Then, they impact changes in the real economy, usually in six to nine months, but in a range of three to 18 months. Usually in about two years in the US, they correlate with changes in the rate of inflation or deflation." "The leads are long and variable, though the more inflation a society has experienced, history shows, the shorter the time lead will be between a change in money supply growth and the subsequent change in inflation.” YearsFirstsLongTwoRealShowsThreeGrowthEconomyMonthsSixImpactRateInvestingFinancialSignificantNineRangeTwo YearsInflationVariablesNine MonthsFinancial MarketsSignificant ChangeDeflation Author:Milton Friedman
“People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.” PeopleIfsMeanThreeOpportunityGrowthSpaceAnswersPovertyDignityIncreaseThreatPopulationCrowdsDecencyDecreaseMinusPopulation Growth Author:Marya Mannes
“...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating molds which appeared one by one on the slowly disintegrating mass of horse-dung. Microscopic molds are both very beautiful and absorbingly interesting. The rapid growth of their spores, the way they live on each other, the manner in which the different forms come and go, is so amazing and varied that I believe a man could spend his life and not exhaust the forms or problems contained in one plate of manure.” MenWayFirstsBelieveDifferentFeelingsProblemBeautifulFormThreeI BelieveGrowthInterestingStudyWeekHe ManMassHorseFascinatingBiologyEntertainingPlatesRapidsComes And GoesMoldVery BeautifulManureRevulsionRapid Growth Author:David Fairchild
“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.” WorldLoveLifeInspirationalActionHateThreeGrowthMoralVirtueHuman NatureReturnMoralityAchievementIntellectualTasksIncludingHardestAcknowledgeRecogniseAdmittingExcludedFeatsMoral CourageStop Hating Book:Pieces of Eight Pa Source: Pieces of Eight Pa
“Do not feel bad about your mistakes or those of others. Love them! Remember that one: they are to be expected; two: they're the first and most essential part of the learning process; and three: feeling bad about them will prevent you from getting better.” LifeFeelsFirstsTwoFeelingsRememberThreeProcessGrowthMistakeEssentialsPersonal GrowthInvestingExpectedGet BetterLearning ProcessFeeling Bad Author:Ray Dalio
“It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent.” WorldFirstsWarThreeGrowthHigherDemandTaxesPercentRateMythDecadesWar Of The WorldsWealthyWorld War IiWorld War I Author:Robert Reich
“Momentum and growth are the lifeblood of startups. This is probably in the top three secrets of executing well.” WellsThreeGrowthSecretMomentumExecuting Author:Sam Altman
“Polak, a psychiatrist, has applied a behavioral and anthropological approach to alleviating poverty, developed by studying people in their natural surroundings. He argues that there are three mythic solutions to poverty eradication: donations, national economic growth, and big businesses. Instead, he advocates helping the poor earn money through their own efforts of developing low-cost tools that are effective and profitable.” PeopleHelpingBigsThreeGrowthNaturalPoorEffortPovertyStudyEconomicCostApproachSolutionsLowsToolsArguingDevelopingSurroundingsProfitableEconomic GrowthPsychiatristBig BusinessDonationSolutions To Poverty Author:Amy Lockwood
“In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.” WorldLongThreeGrowsGrowthNatureFeetMetaphorObviousLakesLengthInchesDeep ThoughtEighteenPonds Book:Invinceable Principles: Essential Tools for Life Mastery Source: Invinceable Principles: Essential Tools for Life Mastery
“An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.” WayIdeasValuesThreeGrowthEconomyInformationMaterialsOffersResourcesAddEnvironmentalClash Author:Charles Handy
“We need to enact fundamental tax reform. The weight and complexity of our 73,000-page tax code are crushing everyday Americans. We need to radically simplify the tax code so that we can re-start the real engine of growth in our economy. That means our tax code needs to go from 73,000 pages down to about three pages.” NeedsMeanRealThreeGrowthEconomyTaxesPagesWeightFundamentalsEverydayReformCodeComplexityCrushEnginesSimplifyTax Reform Author:Carly Fiorina
“The more subtle thing is more speculative. The world is well past its long-term carrying capacity for human beings living a European, much less an American, lifestyle predicated on planned obsolescence. International economic growth is largely a matter of accelerated movement of materials from mines and forests to the dump. Instead of saving and buying decent furniture we can pass on to our children, we charge our credit cards for shaped heaps of sawdust and glue that fall apart in less than three or four years.” WorldYearsHumansWellsChildrenLongMatterPastFallThreeGrowthTermHuman BeingsFourEconomicMovementMinesMaterialsCapacityOur ChildrenInternationalCreditLifestyleForestsCardsSavingLong TermDecentBuyingSubtleFour YearsFalling ApartFurnitureEconomic GrowthCredit CardDumpGlueObsolescenceSawdustPlanned Obsolescence Author:Denis Hayes
“To put it in context, the federal government was, at the beginning [of the Vancouver meeting], talking about a $15-per-tonne floor for carbon emissions. We're at $30 a tonne, so we're already double that. But our economy is growing at a faster rate - three per cent of GDP is our projected growth in British Columbia.” GovernmentThreeGrowthTalkingEconomyGrowingMeetingsRateBritishFasterCentsCarbonFederal GovernmentEmissionsColumbiaGdpVancouverCarbon EmissionsBritish Columbia Author:Christy Clark
“You can't have 23 million people struggling to get a job. You can't have an economy that over the last three years keeps slowing down its growth rate. You can't have kids coming out of college, half of them can't find a job today, or a job that's commensurate with their college degree. We have to get our economy going.” PeopleYearsKidsTodayJobsLastsThreeGrowthHalfMillionsStruggleEconomyCollegeDegreesRateComing OutThree YearsSlow DownSlowingCollege Degree Author:Mitt Romney
“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
“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