Growth Quotes - Page 82

We've got to get back to rebuilding the middle class, the families of America. That's where growth will come from.

We need to have strong growth, fair growth, sustained growth.

Our history has shown us that the strongest growth in our economy is inclusive, broad-based growth.

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.

Short-sighted and impatient efforts to wipe out poverty by severing the connection between effort and reward can only lead to the growth of a totalitarian state, and destroy the economic progress that this country has so dearly bought.

How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?

The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.

I see the future of China as growth. I think that historically China has often gone through periods of consolidation, and then periods of sort of weakening central authority. They undoubtedly face tremendous challenges.

Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare.

Conflict is growth trying to happen.

Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable

The main problems are insufficient diversification and the failure to pick age-appropriate strategies - that is, more aggressive when you're younger, and more conservative when you approach retirement. But even then you have to invest for growth.

Less money for retirees means less purchasing power means less economic growth overall. It's a big problem.

The best solution would be better strategies for more rapid economic growth and getting people jobs and increases in income. You should simply be clear about matching problems and solutions. If the problem is someone can't find a job because they don't have the skills and they need some retraining, extending emergency unemployment isn't going to solve that. You need the job training programs or the skills bills that come out of the House and are sitting in the Senate.

Now [in China] within the framework of socialism - which is really social welfare in a social democratic framework - all they want to do is to get the kind of economic growth of the capitalist world. It can't be done. It creates the same kind of problems as in the capitalist world.

Carmen Jones was the first all-Negro film that became a great box-office success. It established the fact that pictures with Negro artists, pictures dealing with the folklore of Negro life, were commercially feasible. This was a sign of growth that had occurred in the United States and throughout the world.

We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions.

This Universe is made by God by one universal rule: everybody has a standard of birth, growth, and death, except man. God is extremely forgiving, but if you do not acknowledge what you have, in gratitude, you will never have more, and if you care to get it, something will be lost.

In expectation of his demise, a successful businessman may sell out to his competitors to prepare his estate with readily marketable securities, such as U.S. Treasury bonds. The confiscatory death tax eliminates many family enterprises and promotes the growth of giant corporations.

The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.

It's just as valuable to curate content as it is to create it.

Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged.

Climate change is due to the use of energy for industrial growth, which has been and is overwhelmingly based on fossil fuels.

Changing an economic system that is bent on uncontrolled and poorly measured economic growth and depends on fossil energy for its main objectives, is much more difficult than changing how nuclear energy is used for military purposes. Some think it may be impossible.

The new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge.