“I think there are multiple studies now to demonstrate that diversity, a better balance between genders, but also between different fields as well, is actually conducive to better growth, better bottom line, better results.” ThinkingWellsDifferentGrowthLinesResultsStudyFieldsBalanceDiversityBottomGenderMultipleBottom Line Author:Christine Lagarde
“Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.” IfsWayNeedsShouldDoeEndsProblemRunningOpportunityGrowthResultsGreaterFailingHigherCostSucceedIncreaseOriginalsFinalsPopulationDuesIncomeConsumptionNew WaysBetter OffInventorShortageScarcity Author:Julian Simon
“The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life more than anything else. And no one has taught us to love the two people who brought us into the world and educated us. Which is all the more reason to believe that we did not learn to love God as a result of outside instruction. In the very nature of every human being has been sown the seed of the ability to love. You and I ought to welcome this seed, cultivate it carefully, nourish it attentively and foster its growth by going to the school of God's commandments with help of His grace.” PeopleWorldLoveBelieveHumansHas BeensTwoReasonHelpingLightTruthSchoolEnjoyGrowthHuman BeingsAbilityResultsGraceLove YouTaughtOughtSeedsWelcomeEducatedGod LoveInstructionCommandmentsTaught UsAbility To Love Author:Saint Basil
“The best gift you can ever give your mentor is to grow. They feed off your growth. I believe that everyone has the seed of success inside, but too many people can't find it in themselves and as a result do not reach their potential. But there are those whose purpose in life is to fertilize the seed of potential in another, who are rewarded by seeing that person grow and blossom before their eyes. Raising up others to a higher level is a mentor's joy and sustenance.” PeopleGivingBelievePersonsEyeLife IsJoyPurposeI BelieveGrowsGrowthLevelsResultsSeeingHigherSeedsPurpose Of LifeMentorHigher LevelSustenanceBest Gift Author:John C. Maxwell
“The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt.” GrowthWealthResultsEffortAchievementAmbitionEnglandStriveBusyCirclesFranceVainContinentsMultitudesExpansionCompetenceNew EnglandToiling Book:Pioneers of France in the New World Source: Pioneers of France in the New World
“Margins on other sales and revenues grew as a result of the growth in extended service plan revenues, which have no associated cost of sales, and the growth in our service margin, reflecting improved overhead expense absorption.” GrowthResultsPlansGrewCostExpensesRevenueReflectingMarginsOverheadAbsorption Author:Austin Ligon
“After careful consideration, we have decided that for our next fiscal year, we'll issue guidance on comparable store used unit sales and on earnings per share only for the full fiscal year. We will no longer issue quarterly guidance. This decision reflects our continuing focus on longer-term store, sales, and earnings growth and on return on invested capital, and our recognition that the performance in shorter-term periods can be more volatile than over the longer term. As we report our quarterly results, we plan to comment on how our performance is tracking against our annual guidance.” YearsUsedNextGrowthTermDecisionResultsIssuesFocusPlansShareReturnPeriodsDecidedPerformancesCarefulStoresRecognitionGuidanceReportsConsiderationCommentContinuingUnitsEarningAnnualsTracking Author:Austin Ligon
“A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know.” KnowsMenWorldWantFirstsLongIdeasEnoughLyingCertainOrderSpeakWishDifficultGrowthResultsDealsStudyTruth IsLong TimeBuiltFoundationOneselfAcquireConceptionDifficult ThingsSpeak The Truth Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“Where countries have been able to carry through on their reform commitments - as in Korea, Thailand and the Philippines - results are starting to come in the form of lower interest rates, new investment and increased growth.” Has BeensCountryAbleFormGrowthInterestResultsCommitmentInvestmentRateStartingReformKoreaPhilippinesInterest RateThailand Author:Lawrence Summers
“Spiritual growth depends on two things: first a willingness to live according to the Word of God; second, a willingness to take whatever consequences emerge as a result.” FirstsTwoSpiritualGrowthResultsDependsConsequenceTwo ThingsSpiritual GrowthWillingnessWord Of God Author:Sinclair B. Ferguson
“I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.” YearsLastsNextGrowthResultsCompanyEconomyFiveMonthsFinancialFive YearsRevenueMost AmazingPredictingPipelineLast Five YearsFinancial Results Author:Steve Ballmer
“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
“The record results for the third quarter once again demonstrate the ability of GE's diverse mix of leading global businesses to deliver top-line growth, increased margins and strong cash generation.” InspirationalStrongGrowthLinesAbilityResultsRecordsGenerationsThirdsQuartersCashDiverseMarginsGlobal Business Author:Jack Welch
“Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in that country consistent with budgetary discipline.” CountryIndividualGrowthResultsPolicyDisciplineConsistentPursuedEuropean Countries Author:Mario Monti
“The basic issue of an American society which is fair, which is providing opportunity for all, is nowadays being replaced by the correct perception that we're living in a rigged economy - where it doesn't matter how hard you worked, the result will be all the income goes to the people at the very top. It's leading to a lot of frustration and anger, and people want some fundamental changes to the way we do economics and growth.” PeopleWayWantMatterHardOpportunityGrowthResultsEconomyIssuesPerceptionFairsEconomicsFundamentalsIncomeFrustrationProvidingReplacedAmerican SocietyRigged Author:Bernie Sanders
“The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her "job" is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a refutation of the mother's indispensability, and she may unconsciously sabotage their growth as a result.” MayChildrenSelfJobsMotherGrowthResultsRiskHelplessSabotageSelf SufficiencySufficiencyRefutation Book:Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier
“There are lots of other things that affect state growth besides state taxes. However, the reason I look at taxes is because these are policy variables that can be changed by state governments in order to get better results than they otherwise had.” LooksStatesReasonGovernmentOrderGrowthResultsPolicyChangedTaxesGet BetterVariablesState Government Author:Arthur Laffer
“Principles are concepts that can be applied over and over again in similar circumstances as distinct from narrow answers to specific questions. Every game has principles that successful players master to achieve winning results. So does life. Principles are ways of successfully dealing with the laws of nature or the laws of life. Those who understand more of them and understand them well know how to interact with the world more effectively than those who know fewer of them or know them less well.” KnowsWorldWayLifeWellsDoeLawGamesWinningGrowthAnswersResultsPrinciplesKnow HowSuccessfulPlayerAchieveMastersCircumstancesConceptsPersonal GrowthInvestingFewerLaws Of NatureLaws Of Life Author:Ray Dalio
“It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect . . . .The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms.” HumansDifferentMatterMightMovingEnergyGrowthNaturalAnimalResultsGenerationsInfluenceEffectsSourceMiraclePlantSeedsRangeHeatFree WillAttributesAtomsVegetablesParticlesTemperatureAnimal LifeEnquiryFortuitousConcurrenceDaily Miracles Author:Lord Kelvin
“He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.” DoeUseGrowthResultsEnvironmentAchieveShapesPlantAppropriateProvidingGardenerCraftsmanHandiwork Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“It's no longer terribly sexy to own shares in certain companies; it used to be that being a shareholder in a corporation would connect you with it. The result is that people really want to invest in valuable things, and contemporary art has become a very stable material value with great growth potential.” PeopleWantArtUsedCertainValuesGrowthResultsCompanyShareMaterialsValuableSexyContemporaryUsed To BeCorporationsStableShareholdersContemporary ArtValuable Things Author:Thomas Koerfer