Growth Quotes - Page 23

• The worst sort of business is one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money. Think airlines. Here a durable competitive advantage has proven elusive ever since the days of the Wright Brothers. Indeed, if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down.

  Warren Buffett

  Brother, Thinking, Shooting

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.110, John Wiley & Sons

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• Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind. It is not simply a feeling of sorrow ,but a psycho/spiritual growth away from evil/death and a turning to God/life]. Sin is the wound, repentance is the medicine. Sin is followed by shame; repentance is followed by boldness [ Boldness means to beg God for undeserved mercy]. Satan has overturned this order and given boldness to sin and shame to repentance.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Love, Spiritual, Mean

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• When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.

  Bell Hooks

  Love, Self, Spirit

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• We have faith in the potentialities of others, of ourselves, and of mankind because, and only to the degree to which, we have experienced the growth of our own potentialities, the reality of growth in ourselves, the strength of our own power of reason and love.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Reality, Degrees

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.113, A&C Black

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• Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin. Note: For Hyrum Smith's other ideas which he regards as pertinent to Success, see Topics: Character, Charity, Goals, Humility, Peace of Mind, Sacrifice, Success-Change-Personal Growth, Success-Change-Constructive Imagination, Wisdom

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Love, Hate, Character

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• More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.

  Francois Gautier

  Inspirational, Learning, Clarity Of Purpose

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• The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Night, Sky, Affection

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.47, Diversion Books

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• PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Courage, Military, Favors

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.172, 谷月社

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• Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.

  James C. Collins

  Business, Good To Great, Great Company

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• "Growth!" is not a Hedgehog Concept. Rather, if you have the right Hedgehog Concept and make decisions relentlessly consistent with it, you will create such momentum that your main problem will not be how to grow, but how not to grow too fast.

  James C. Collins

  Business, Decision, Momentum

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• The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the free-market system. The opportunity to charge monopoly prices - at least for a short period - is what attracts 'business acumen' in the first place; it induces risk taking that produces innovation and economic growth.

  Antonin Scalia

  Opportunity, Monopoly Power, Competition

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• I claim that nothing else is so effective in encouraging the growth of chess strength as such independent analysis, both of the games of the great players and your own.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Independent, Player, Games

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• Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. The Art of Peace is a celebration of the bonding of heaven, earth, and humankind. It is all that is true, good, and beautiful.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Beautiful, Art, Heaven

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist cares whether what he does is 'art' or not. Who, after all, knows what art is?

  Robert Henri

  Art, Real, Believe

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.224, Basic Books

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• Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Progress, Process, Constant

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• States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.

  Anna Lindh

  Responsibility, People, Decision

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

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Dream, Vision, Limits

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• The enforcement is the flip side to the growth. And that's OK.

  Hilary Rosen

  Enforcement, Flip, Sides

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• To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.

  Sissela Bok

  Self, Realizing, Mature

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.40, Vintage

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• You can't take this speck of dust in this midst of all this incredible panorama of birth and complexifying and say...this is the only place that [life] happens. It's like turning your back on the whole idea of growth and evolution.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Dust, Ideas, Turning Your Back

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• I'm in a period of growth and expansion. I'm taking long, hard looks at the world and what's happening in it, analyzing and thinking. I'm trying to become acquainted with the universe - with the part of it I occupy - and trying to settle, for myself, what my relationship with it is.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Thinking, Long, Trying

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• Let me end with an explanation of why I believe the move into space to be a human imperative. It seems to me obvious in too many ways to need listing that we cannot much longer depend upon our planet's relatively fragile ecosystem to handle the realities of the human tomorrow. Unless we turn human growth and energy toward the challenges and promises of space, our only other choice may be the awful risk, currently demonstrable, of stumbling into a cycle of fratricide and regression which could end all chances of our evolving further or of even surviving.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Believe, Moving, Reality

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• In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth.

  Martin Feldstein

  Dollars, Economic, Theory

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• In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists or even a coherent philosophy or dogma, it is difficult to define or measure the unorganized New Age movement. But in every major U.S. and European city, thousands who seek insight and personal growth cluster around a metaphysical bookstore, a spiritual teacher, or an education center.

  John Naisbitt

  Spiritual, Teacher, Philosophy

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• Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.

  Julian Smith

  Organization, Balance, Getting High

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