Growth Quotes - Page 86

From the point of view of the economy, the sale of weapons is indistinguishable from the sale of food. When a building collapses or a plane crashes, it?s rather inconvenient from the point of view of those inside, but it?s altogether convenient for the growth of the gross national product, which sometimes ought to be called the "gross criminal product."

We're not on a sustainable path in civilization. We're on an exponential growth curve, on which we perhaps always have been, but it has turned up sharply at the beginning of the 20th century.

If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great.

Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering

Economists who studied in the '80s tend to have a pretty crude neoclassical view that's just about freeing up prices and markets, and then you'll get the growth and everybody benefits. And they'll just repeat that, because if you're a minister or a senior civil servant, you don't have time to read anything anymore. You get very fixed in your views.

I'm cutting taxes. We're going to grow the economy. It's going to grow at a record rate of growth.

Had we kept the oil, you wouldn't have ISIS, because they fuel their growth with the oil.

America has the slowest growth and jobs are a disaster.

There's no growth. If China has a GDP of 7 percent, it's like a national catastrophe. We're down at 1 percent. And that's, like, no growth. And we're going lower, in my opinion. And a lot of it has to do with the fact that our taxes are so high, just about the highest in the world. And I'm bringing them down to one of the lower in the world.

We are going to be thriving again. We have no growth in America.

Broad-based, inclusive growth is what we need in America, not more advantages for people at the very top.

Watch the growth of middle level management. Don't automatically fill vacant jobs. Leave some positions unfilled for 6-8 months to see what happens. You will find you won't need to fill some of them.

Well, you can, but tell you this, that when you've got an economy that is growing at 4.9% it is the fastest growth over the last 12 months we've seen in 20 years.

Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.

Growth demands investment, and investment demands stability. So the more Obama stirs the pot with his proposals and potential changes, the more he retards exactly the investment he needs to get the economy moving again.

Obama's perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility.

I always was fascinated with China, because I was born in Europe, and for us, China had this fascination and mystery. The first time I came here was in 1989. They were on bicycles, and the speed of the growth has been incredible.

I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down.

We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more years of greenhouses gases, species extinctions and population growth.

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

The cosmos is structured to bring about growth, and growth is always in the direction of greater love and happiness.

At every stage of spiritual growth, the greatest ally you have is your body.

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.