Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Dole

I look at the slowest growth in a century. He inherited a growth of 4.7 to 4.8 percent, and now it's down to about 2.4 percent. We're going to pass a million bankruptcies for the first time in history. We've got stagnant wages,

Clearly, the U.S. is our No.1 growth market and we're looking to expand.

Higher interest rates in the U.S. were really strangling growth in Asia.

Chuck Jones

CA isn't well positioned from a growth standpoint.

But the growth is uneven, and there is a huge unfinished agenda.

This is a feel-good report. When you get a strong growth number and a low inflation number, it's hard to get a better combination than that for the economy.

This has been a shock. Poker isn't dead, but the talk of 45% growth now looks unrealistic.

They're the only growth industry in the military right now. But there's always a use for conventional forces.

John W. Snow

And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.

John W. Snow

We're focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important.

Mark Noble

My definition of economic development is economic growth.

Todd Tiahrt

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

Michael Steele

Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.

Margaret Fuller

Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.

Michael Meacher

We have an overdraft with the earth something in excess of 130 per cent. We currently consume something like 30 per cent over and above what we are replacing and rather like an overdraft at a bank that can't go on.

Michael Eisner

If it's not growing, it's going to die.

Emmet Fox

We grow into that which we admire.

Jacob Zuma

Once we have the infrastructure in Africa, it should not be blocked by borders.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

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

Phil Harding

Everybody talks about population growth and its disastrous effect on climate change, food security and resource depletion, but nobody does anything about it

Phil Harding

Living in an orgy of unrestrained consumption and economic growth accompanied by population expansion that ignores the carrying capacity of local environments will lead to disaster

Phil Harding

Like our finances, humankind is living with a growing ecological deficit but the solution is different. The deficit will worsen with dangerous consequences unless we address population growth sooner rather than later. Efficiency improvements, increased use of renewable resources and less waste in themselves are no longer sufficient to put us back into credit

Phil Harding

Economic growth won't feed a growing population living on this finite planet

John Sununu

Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.

John Stuart Mill

Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.

Laura Harris

The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own.

Friedrich August von Hayek

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

George Galloway

I saw 'New Labour'conceived, watched it gestate, witnessed its birth and growth. Now I fervently hope I will be present at its death.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

America is the primary engine of growth in the world and we are the only beacon of free trade left, and open markets.

Nigel Farage

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

Monica Lewinsky

There is a very personal price to public humiliation, and the growth of the Internet has jacked up that price.

John Wooden

You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.

The headline is the growth percentage in the past two years.