Growth Quotes - Page 25

Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.

People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also will experience negative consequences, as with any form of gluttony.

What I'm trying to say is that for the average investor, what I would encourage them to do is to understand there's inflation and growth - it can go higher and lower - and to have four different portfolios essentially that make up your total portfolio that gets you balanced.

Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness.

All things change, nothing perishes.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

If we want the world to be a better place to live, we have to treat it as one unit. If we want economic growth to be pervasive, we have to make people its partners. If we want the process of development to be sustainable, we have to work with the environment.

Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green' capitalism, to make it 'ecological', are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.

Everything is in a process of change, nothing endures; we do not seek permanence.

I think of movies as depicting moments of change. Change is growth, and that change also possesses the same dynamism that movies do.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Contrary to popular belief, we do not face a choice between economy and ecology, It is often said that protecting the environment would constrain or even undermine economic growth. In fact, the opposite is true: unless we protect resources and the earth's natural capital, we shall not be able to sustain economic growth.

God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow.

The need for growth, for development, for change, is fundamental to life.

Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.

If you focus on goals, you may hit goals - but that doesn't guarantee growth. If you focus on growth, you will grow and always hit goals.

psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

The consequences of inflation are malinvestment, waste, a wanton redistribution of wealth and income, the growth of speculation and gambling, immorality and corruption, disillusionment, social resentment, discontent, upheaval and riots, bankruptcy, increased government controls, and eventual collapse.

Would food be considered an instrument of national power? ... Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their population growth?

Population growth and the proliferation of mega-cities around the world redefines the entire global security agenda.

No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth.

It may indeed prove to be far the most difficult and not the least important task for human reason rationally to comprehend its own limitations. It is essential for the growth of reason that as individuals we should bow to forces and obey principles which we cannot hope fully to understand, yet on which the advance and even the preservation of civilization depend.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Growth has no limit at Reliance. I keep revising my vision. Only when you dream it you can do it.