Rapid Growth Quotes

• To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

  Edward de Bono

  Successful, Mad, Growth

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• Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

  George Washington

  Memorial Day, Freedom, 4th Of July

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.55, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes.

  Spencer Bachus

  Jobs, Construction Industry, Growth

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• Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.

  Lee Haney

  Exercise, America, Growth

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• Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.

  Keith Henson

  Suicide, Growth, Arabia

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• More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Technology, Years, Competition

  "Watchdog ready to relax price controls on BT" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2006.

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• Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.

  James Hansen

  Giving, Growth, Made

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• Gujarat, with its all inclusive, sustainable and rapid growth, is emerging as a globally preferred place to live in and to do business.

  Narendra Modi

  Growth, Gujarat, Places To Live

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• What counts is results, and there can be no doubt that the Soviet planning system has been a powerful engine for economic growth...The Soviet model has surely demonstrated that a command economy is capable of mobilizing resources for rapid growth.

  Paul Samuelson

  Powerful, Doubt, Growth

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• Female friendships are of rapid growth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Friendship, Growth, Female

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5010, Delphi Classics

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• Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.

  Benjamin Graham

  Achievement, Forever, Growth

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.

  Maxim Gorky

  Class, Intellectual, Growth

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• The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks constitutes a national and race danger which is impossible to exaggerate. I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed before another year has passed.

  Winston Churchill

  Cutting, Race, Years

  Winston Churchill's addree as Home Secretary to Prime Minister Asquith on compulsory sterilization of 'the feeble-minded and insane', as quoted in "'Race', Sport and British Society" edited by Ben Carrington and Ian Mcdonald, 2001.

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• Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.

  Werner Herzog

  Communication, Technology, Phones

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, en.wikiquote.org. 2002.

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• Balance is the most important of all qualities. We don't want a little bit of rapid growth and then to stagnate. We want continual growth, continual development, which implies balance, always.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Growth, Balance

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• One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees... The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.

  William O. Douglas

  Spiritual, Sacrifice, Men

  William O. Douglas' speech at annual dinner of Fordham University Alumni Association in New York City, February 9, 1939.

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• The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of their people, upon the well-defined constitutional rights of the Southern citizens; the rapid growth and increase, in all the elements of power, of a purely sectional party.

  Isham G. Harris

  War, Party, Rights

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• I personally know of scores of cases (of alcohoics) who were of the type with whom other methods had failed completely....because of the extraordinary possibilities of rapid growth inherent in this froup they may mark a new epoch in the annals of alcoholism. These men may well have a remedy for thousands of such situations.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Recovery, Men, Growth

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• Edward Conard provides a provocative interpretation of the causes of the global financial crisis and the policies needed to return to rapid growth. Whether you agree or not, this analysis is well worth reading.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Reading, Growth, Analysis

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• Selling five million units in less than 14 months means DS is the fastest among any game machines ever launched in Japan to hit that level. To achieve this rapid growth, we were required not only to go after frequent game players, but to reel back people who had left games and to make video games enjoyable for those who had not played games at all.

  Satoru Iwata

  Mean, Player, Japan

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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, Growth

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

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• Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Personality, Growth, Too Much

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• As formal teaching and training grow in extent, there is the danger of creating an undesirable split between the experience gained in more direct associations and what is acquired in school. This danger was never greater than at the present time, on account of the rapid growth in the last few centuries of knowledge and technical modes of skill.

  John Dewey

  Teaching, School, Skills

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.18, Read Books Ltd

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• I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and any discussion of slowing its growth has to take account of economic consequences. However, it is possible for us to learn how to control our own uses of technology.

  Neil Postman

  Technology, Thinking, Growth

  "Neil Postman Ponders High Tech". Online Newshour: Online Forum, www.faculty.rsu.edu. January 17, 1996.

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• The rapid growth of industry, the ever increasing population and the imperative need for a more varied, wholesome and nourishing foodstuff makes it all the more necessary to exhaust every means at our command to fill the empty dinner pail, enrich our soils, bring greater wealth and influence to our beautiful South land, which is synonymous to a healthy, happy and contented people.

  George Washington Carver

  Beautiful, Health, Mean

  "George Washington Carver: In His Own Words".

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