“Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.” TodayStrongNationsSoundGrowthLevelsEconomicRemainsTypicalExpansionHousingEconomic GrowthHousing MarketHomeownership Author:Randy Neugebauer
“Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary.” CountryStatesTodayJobsNationsGrowthForeverPrideMonthsOfficeDignityDepthWorkersBarackGood JobSalaryRecessionsStaggeringJob GrowthGreat Recession Author:Ted Strickland
“In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.” TodayStuffGrowthHappeningsProductivityPrintGoing To WorkInflation Author:Peter Thiel
“The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today's society.” TodayGrowthChallengesBusinessEconomicKeysResourcesPerformancesManagementWorkersProductivityProductiveEconomic GrowthManualsKnowledge WorkersToday's Society Author:Peter Drucker
“The interests of Oregon for today and in the future must be protected from the grasping wastrels of the land. We must respect another truism - that unlimited and unregulated growth, leads inexorably to a lowered quality of life.” TodayGrowthInterestQualityLandProtectedUnlimitedQuality Of LifeGraspingOregonTruism Author:Tom McCall
“The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the public by the proper government authorities will not succeed, in my judgment, in checking the progress of the movement. But if they did succeed they would find that they had sown the wind and would surely reap the whirlwind, for they would ultimately provoke the violent excesses which accompany a reform coming by convulsion instead of by steady and natural growth.” IfsMenTryingGovernmentTodayGrowthInterestNaturalWealthBusinessProgressMovementHe ManWindSucceedAuthorityJudgmentViolentReformExcessSteadyRegulationProvokingReapAccompanyWhirlwind Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Ask yourself - Where do I want to be one year from today? Personal growth is a choice.” WantYearsTodayChoicesAsksGrowthPersonal Growth Author:Bob Proctor
“You can't rest on yesterday's growth. You must be dedicated to growing today... and every day.” TodayGrowthGrowingYesterdayDedicated Book:A Man After God's Own Heart Source: A Man After God's Own Heart
“Our devotional life with God is more like the planting of a garden. When we arise from sowing into the secret place, we will not usually be able to point to immediate results or benefits. What we sow today will require an entire season of growth before the results are manifest.” TodayAbleGrowthResultsSecretBenefitsGardenSeasonsAriseManifestDevotionalSowingSecret Places Author:Bob Sorge
“Therefore, this is a question of whether we, humans, can change our culture and begin to truly care for all Creation, nurture all Life and thereby avert our own extinction. As such, this is a deeply spiritual issue and we can begin to act today, regardless of age. But the good news is that this is not a question of whether we will change our culture, but a question of when.” HumansCareAgeTodaySpiritualCultureGrowthIssuesCreationNewsConsumptionNurtureGood NewsExtinctionAvert Author:Shailesh Rao
“All I am asking is that we follow the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This is fundamentally a moral issue, not an economic issue. Given what we know now, it is simply unethical to impose risk of grave damage on future generations just so that we can have a few more consumer products today.” KnowsTodayGivenGrowthMoralIssuesRiskGenerationsEconomicProductsAskingGravesGoldenConsumersDamageConsumptionFuture GenerationGolden RuleDo Unto OthersMoral IssuesUnethicalEconomic Issues Author:Ken Caldeira
“The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.” WayHas BeensTodayEarthGrowthForgetSituationWorryAnxietyProductionsConsumption Author:Nhat Hanh
“Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness.” PeopleSelfTodayGrowthAwarenessSelf AwarenessNationalismFabricExtremism Author:Raisa Gorbacheva
“There can be no solution to the challenge of climate change that is not global. But if we can come together in partnership, we can transform today's challenge into tomorrow's opportunity - an opportunity for green growth and sustainable prosperity... we also need a strong bottom-up push from academics and opinion-shapers such as you. Universities such as yours are founts of ideas and innovation. They are furnaces of innovation and entrepreneurship. So, send forth this word.” IfsNeedsIdeasTodayTogetherOpportunityStrongGrowthChallengesOpinionTomorrowSolutionsInnovationGreenClimateEnvironmentalBottomClimate ChangeUniversityProsperityEntrepreneurshipSustainabilityPartnershipFurnacesIdeas And Innovation Author:Ban Ki-moon
“My father was a mailman. His father was a coal miner. My mother's mother could barely speak English. And their son today stands on this podium in the great state of Ohio not only as the governor, but a candidate for president of the United States.I do believe in miracles.I've had a lot of elections. But my elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement.A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind.” PeopleBelieveStatesTodayMotherFatherSpeakGrowthPresidentUnitedBehindsUnited StatesEconomicMovementSonMiracleElectionCampaignsCandidatesGovernorsCoalEconomic GrowthOhioMinersSpeak EnglishBelieve In MiraclesCoal MinersMailman Author:John Kasich
“I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world; there are all kind of people in it. It's showing growth, and in today's world there are so many outlets.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksKindCharacterTodayBlackGrowthWhiteWonderfulAll KindsAfrican AmericanWonderful ThingsOutletsToday's WorldAmerican Character Author:Darius McCrary
“Growth isn't central at all, because I'm trying to run this company as if it's going to be here a hundred years from now. And if you take where we are today and add 15% growth, like public companies need to have for their stock to stay up in value, I'd be a multi-trillion-dollar company in 40 years. Which is impossible, of course.” IfsNeedsTryingYearsRunningTodayValuesCoursesGrowthBusinessCompanyImpossibleHundredDollarsAdd Author:Yvon Chouinard
“Startups are the engines of exponential growth, manifesting the power of innovation. Several big companies today are startups of yesterday. They were born with a spirit of enterprise and adventure kept alive due to hardwork and perseverance and today have become shining beacons of innovation.” BigsTodaySpiritGrowthBornCompanyTechnologyAliveAdventureIndiaInnovationShiningPerseveranceDuesYesterdayEnterpriseManifestEnginesInformation TechnologyHardworkBeaconsBig CompaniesExponential Growth Author:Narendra Modi
“Historical romance is still very strong in the market. Writers of historical romance are making the bestselling lists on a regular basis and careers are growing. However, since there is much more variety in romance today, the total sales of historicals might be down from their peak. The talk of the market softening is a reflection of this, and of the fact that one does not see big growth in this area of the market.” DoeStillsFactsBigsMightTodayRomanceStrongGrowthCareersGrowingReflectionAreasBasesHistoricalListsVarietyVery Strong Author:Madeline Hunter
“The world is hungry for the discoveries that young, leading-edge brain researchers are making in Ontario today. This collaboration will help them bring their best ideas to market, improving the quality of life for Ontarians while creating good jobs and promoting economic growth.” WorldIdeasHelpingTodayJobsYoungGrowthBrainQualityEconomicCreatingDiscoveryEdgesHungryCollaborationImprovingGood JobPromotingEconomic GrowthQuality Of LifeResearchersOntario Author:Brad Duguid
“Growth that lasts does not threaten our children's future. It recognises that our planet is a gift that must be cherished. That tomorrow is our responsibility as much as today.” ChildrenDoeTodayLastsGrowthResponsibilityPlanetsTomorrowOur ChildrenOur PlanetRecognise Author:Nick Clegg
“The game of business used to be like football: size mattered. Then it changed to basketball: speed and agility. Today, business is more like chess. Customer priorities change continually, and the signals given by these changes are vital clues to the next cycle of growth.” TodayUsedNextGamesGivenGrowthChangedFootballBasketballSizeCustomersSpeedPrioritiesChessUsed To BeCyclesSignalsClueAgility Author:Adrian Slywotzky
“Republicans favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, but these had no stimulative effect during the George W. Bush administration, and there is no reason to believe that more of them will have any today. As for the idea that cutting regulations will lead to significant job growth, it's just nonsense. It's just made up.” BelieveMadeIdeasReasonTodayJobsGrowthCuttingEffectsRepublicanTaxesFavorsSignificantAdministrationCorporationsNonsenseNo ReasonWealthyRegulationTax CutsJob Growth Author:Bruce Bartlett
“Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it only empties today of it strengths” DoeTodayGrowthTomorrowSorrowAnxietyEmptyPainfulStuckStaying Author:Charles Spurgeon
“By geo-historical standards, today's atmospheric CO2 levels are remarkably - indeed dangerously - low. We need CO2 in the air to support plant growth and agricultural yields, and more would be better.” NeedsWould BeTodayGrowthLevelsSupportAirLowsStandardsPlantHistoricalYieldCo2 Author:Roger Helmer
“Our Government is fostering economic growth in Kitchener, Cambridge and all of the Waterloo Region by investing in our innovative businesses. Today's announcement is a great example of how we are helping high-potential companies bring great ideas to market faster. Helping our entrepreneurs and original thinkers export their products and services to the rest of the world creates jobs, growth and economic prosperity here at home.” WorldIdeasHelpingHomeGovernmentTodayJobsGrowthCompanyEconomicExampleProductsOriginalsEntrepreneurInvestingProsperityFasterRegionsThinkerInnovativeEconomic GrowthGreat IdeaAnnouncementsCambridgeFosteringWaterlooEconomic ProsperityJob Growth Author:Gary Goodyear
“To prop up the stock price, managers have to turn down the screws on everybody. That forces them to cancel all the projects that would lead to future growth in order to drop money to the bottom line. This is HP's dilemma today. Once a company's growth has stopped, the game as we have known it is over. It's a scary thing.” TodayOrderTurnsGamesForceGrowthLinesCompanyKnownProjectsBottomScaryManagersOver ItScrewsBottom LineDilemmaPropsScary ThingsStock PriceFuture Growth Author:Clayton Christensen
“It's good to do things that are out of the norm. I'm a creature of habit and I like to stay in my own little comfort zone, but you have to reach out of that sometimes. And when you do that, you grow. And growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day. And that's one of the things that I say to myself as far as a ritual that I have every day: "What can I do today to make it better than it was yesterday?"” WantNeedsLittlesSometimesTodayGrowsGrowthMy OwnHabitComfortCreaturesStriveYesterdayGet BetterEach DayZoneRitualReach OutComfort ZoneNormCreatures Of Habit Author:LaToya Jackson
“Today you have a situation where now the prescription is: People who dont have enough money to buy food should end up paying for their drinking water. That is going to be the kind of situation in which you will get more child labor. You will get more exploitation of women. Youre going to get an absolutely exploitative economy as the very basis of living becomes a source of capital accumulation and corporate growth. In fact, the chief of Coca-Cola in India said: Our biggest market in India comes from the fact that there is no drinking water left. People will have to buy Coca-Cola.” PeopleShouldKindChildrenSaidEndsEnoughFactsTodayLeftGrowthWaterSituationEconomySourceLaborIndiaBasesDrinkingChiefsCorporateExploitationAccumulationPrescriptionsDrinking WaterCoca ColaChild Labor Author:Vandana Shiva
“Over the longer term, we need to work toward a pro-growth tax code that is fairer and simpler than what we have now. Anything that meets those criteria is going to be better than the failing and dysfunctional tax code we have today.” NeedsTodayGrowthTermFailingTaxesCodeCriteria Author:Joni Ernst
“Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of steadily rising commodity prices, the degradation of forests, lakes and soils, conflicts over land use, water quality, fishing rights and the momentous challenge of stabilising concentrations of carbon in the global atmosphere.” EndsUseTodayGrowthWaterChallengesQualityRightsLandConflictOilForestsErasAtmosphereRisingSoilLakesFishingConcentrationBubblesConsumptionCommodityCarbonDegradationLand UseCommodity PricesWater Quality Author:Tim Jackson
“There are two economic realities in America today. There's been a record six straight years of job growth, and new census numbers show incomes have increased at a record rate after years of stagnation. However, income inequality remains significant, and nearly half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.” YearsTwoShowsRealityTodayJobsAmericaGrowthNumbersHalfRecordsEconomicSixRemainsRateSignificantIncomeInequalityPaychecksStagnationIncome InequalityAmerica TodayCensusJob Growth Author:Lester Holt
“Now what I do is I manage that decision. And I teach them in the book how - know what decision to make and then how to manage those decisions. It's a very - it's a personal growth book [Today Matters]; that's what it is.” KnowsBookMatterTodayGrowthDecisionTeachPersonal GrowthManage Author:John C. Maxwell
“I wrote the book [Today Matters] because I have a passion to help people personally grow. Really what it is, it's a personal growth book.” PeopleBookMatterHelpingTodayPassionGrowsGrowthPersonal Growth Author:John C. Maxwell
“People say, "John, what's your personal growth?" And ask "How do you grow?" And I tell them. I thought, "Why do I keep telling them, why don't I just write a book on what I call personal growth?" And that's what this [Today Matters] book is.” PeopleWritingBookMatterTodayAsksGrowsGrowthPersonal Growth Author:John C. Maxwell
“When you finish reading the book [Today Matters], take the daily dozen and list them in order of how well you do them. For example, the one that I would put at the highest for me is attitude or relationships because I'm really strong at both of those. At the bottom would be health. What I tell people is, "Take one month and work on one of the daily dozen for a whole year." And so it's really a one-year personal growth plan.” PeopleYearsWellsBookMatterWholeWould BeTodayOrderReadingStrongGrowthAttitudePlansExampleMonthsHighestPersonal GrowthBottomListsDozenWhole Year Author:John C. Maxwell
“We are so blessed, we get hundreds of emails a day that say, “John, I’ve worked this plan for one year and I can really see my growth.” So what I would love is for readers to do that for a year and then email me.” YearsI CanMatterTodayGrowthLove IsPlansReaderBlessedEmail Author:John C. Maxwell
“If we want growth today to be more innovation-driven, more inclusive and more sustainable, then we need a more active state, not a less active one. Yet we still hear the dogma that we should just fix market failure by focusing on science and infrastructure, and to "level the playing field."” IfsWantNeedsShouldStillsStatesTodayGrowthLevelsFieldsInnovationActiveDrivenDogmaInfrastructurePlaying FieldsMarket Failure Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“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
“The family today counts for less and less. Why? Who knows - the growth of science, the Cold War, the atomic bomb, the world war we've made, the new philosophies we've created; certainly something is happening to man, so why go against it, why oblige this new man to live by the mechanisms and regulations of the past?” KnowsMenWorldMadeWarPhilosophyTodayPastGrowthColdHappeningsWar Of The WorldsBombsLive ByMechanismRegulationCold WarAtomic BombFamilies Today Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“The economy of the 21st century will come to center on agriculture. Life will be intensely and profoundly local in ways that we can't conceive of today. Economic growth, as we have known it in a cheap energy industrial paradigm, will cease.” WayTodayEnergyGrowthKnownEconomyEconomicCenturyCeaseLocalsAgriculture21st CenturyEconomic GrowthParadigm Author:James Howard Kunstler
“The result of this anti-classical revolution you had just before World War I was that today, almost all the economic growth in the last decade has gone to the One Percent. It's gone to Wall Street, to real estate.” WorldWarRealTodayGrowthEconomicRevolutionWallWar Of The WorldsWorld War IEconomic Growth Author:Michael Hudson
“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
“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
“Budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders, but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions. And any new recession would break all deficit records. In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now.” LongRunningTodayGrowthBreakCuttingEconomicTaxesRateEconomic GrowthParadoxical Author:John F. Kennedy
“Today there's a new report out about how population growth is going down in the United States. Immigrant women are having fewer children. It shows that if you just let women from the developing world have the same rights - or, rather, access - that we have, they make smart decisions.” WorldChildrenTodayGrowthDecisionSmart Author:Barbara Crossette