Famous Quotes & Sayings

Noam Chomsky

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

Noam Chomsky

The entire socioeconomic system is based on production for profit and a growth imperative that cannot be sustained.

Oscar Wilde

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

Mac Thornberry

Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

Michel de Montaigne

The beginnings of all things are weak and tender. We must therefore be clear-sighted in the beginnings, for, as in their budding we discern not the danger, so in their full growth we perceive not the remedy.

Marianne Williamson

If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth

Mark Krikorian

By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress and productivity growth.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.

Prabal Gurung

I am not the kind of designer who is racing to the finish line, so while collaborations are important for our growth, each and every one has to be strategic and well-timed with what we have going on internally.

Kristen Stewart

Every movie that I've done, they don't stand independently from one another because a little bit of me is in every single one of those, and it's part of my own personal growth.

Oprah Winfrey

Life is about growth and change. When you are no longer doing that — that is your whisper; that is your whisper that you are supposed to do something else.

Leonardo da Vinci

We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

LeVar Burton

I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime patterns emerging, and there's a sort of a rubber band effect that happens where social growth and change is concerned.

Laurence D. Fink

I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the United States, but I do like the diversification of being more global.

Larry Page

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

Larry Wall

The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.

P. J. O'Rourke

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

For the last several years, as you know, we've demonstrated outstanding growth in student achievement, and it didn't happen by accident.

Irvin D. Yalom

Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and growth of the other. We take pleasure not only in the growth of our patient but also in the ripple effect—the salutary influence our patients have upon those whom they touch in life.

Gregory Maguire

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Muhtar Kent

Without investment there will not be growth, and without growth there will not be employment.

There is still strong growth potential in metals commodities in 2006 and now is the time to make hay.

Steve Cook

Athena knows they're going to need to expand, so they wanted a short-term tenant to leave them the flexibility to meet their growth needs.

As with the rest of the sector, sales growth will not meet the numbers we originally expected, but it will still be healthy,

Michael Eisner

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

You gotta realize that the whole fiasco of the environment, all this global warming hocus-pocus - which the only thing it's done is made Al Gore a multi-millionaire - but, what it's done is, it has been used as a way to curtail growth, to destroy the growth, exploration.

Sidney Poitier

I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.

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.

John Milton

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

Mitch Albom

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

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.